[maemo-developers] Accessing GPS data remotely

[From: Andre Klapper]

Am Dienstag, den 27.01.2009, 10:55 +0200 schrieb Tuomas Kulve:
>  osso-gpsd (1.0-10) unstable; urgency=low
>   * Listen only localhost addresses. Fixes: NB#60842
> 
> Looks like it's intentional, so filing a bug report would be probably
> resolved as invalid.
> 
> I think it would be quite a security risk if anybody could just connect
> to your device and get your location.

FYI, that was exactly the reason for the decision to disallow this. 
Quoting from NB#60842:
"GPS data can be read from the device using Telnet, but data should not
be visible to the external world."

andre
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Andre Klapper (maemo.org bugmaster)