A Black Hat spokeswoman told Reuters that the talk had been canceled at the request of lawyers for Carnegie-Mellon University, where the speakers work as researchers. A CMU spokesman had no immediate comment.
Dr. Amrit Sorli is a researcher with the Osho Miasto, Institute for Meditation and Spiritual Growth, Siena, Italy. His research subjects are Unknown Vacuum Energies in Living Organisms and Direct Scientific Experience. Dr. Sorli is the author of several books and articles and currently gives courses on this theme.
You're wrong. I saw this in my Twitter timeline and thought it was interresting post despite its age. I wasn't aware RMS had railed on Jobs. I'm no Jobs fanboy.
I did. The title wasn't meant to mislead though. More of a tongue-in-cheek remark. Hence having "tracks" in quotes. Personally I think the whole "OMG APPLE TRACKS US!!" thing going on is overblown.
Looking at it now I guess it can be seen as misleading. It wasn't my intention though.
The unlimited size of Apple's cache is probably just a mistake. It makes no sense to store it on the device for tracking purposes. I assume they log this info when the device requests the info from Skyhook (or whatever location provider they have now) anyway.