Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Friday, May 18th, 2018. Today, more

leakage of your phone's location data. Fortnite comes to Android, data plans for senior

smartphones, robot insects, drone sailboats, and the weekend long reed suggestions.

Here's what you missed today in the world of tech. and the weekend long read suggestions.

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

This will sound a lot like the same story as yesterday, but it's not. It's a similar story because

TLDR companies seem to have access to the location data from our phones and they seem to be doing a

sucky job of protecting it. Yesterday the story was about Securus and now Krebs on

Security and ZdNet and a bunch of other places are reporting on a company called Location Smart, which also

purports to sell real-time phone location data.

It's unclear if Location Smart is a Secress competitor or actually the intermediary that gives Secress the data that it resells.

Anyway, Location Smart markets itself as a service to help advertisers do location-based marketing and to also help companies keep

track of workers and assets in the field, that sort of thing.

Until very recently on Location Smart's website, they had essentially a Try It Now feature to show potential

customers that the technology actually worked.

To use the website demo, you just had to enter a mobile phone number into a form and location smart

would show you the location of that phone on a Google Street View map.

The way it was supposed to work was that the demo would text the number in question first to get consent.

Problem is, quoting from the Krebs-on-security piece, which first reported on this after getting

tipped off by Robert J Jo, a security researcher at Carnegie

Mellon University, quote, the same service failed to perform basic checks to prevent anonymous

and unauthorized queries.

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