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17 mentions on Hacker News by 12 people: 4 stories, 13 comments · first 2013-10-28 · latest 2026-02-17

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  1. …seen any attack against GOS. Seems like this won't change today. You or other readers can check https://github.com/mozilla/ichnaea/issues/2065 for a public display on how GOS attacks work when they are mixed into technical debates, how…
    comment by onli · 2026-02-17 · in GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple
  2. …Having the backing of an existing developer community could really bring this to the next level. 1) https://github.com/mozilla/ichnaea/issues/2065 2) https://github.com/beacondb/beacondb Edit: the actual project seems to be on Codeberg[3],…
    comment by FireInsight · 2024-07-07 · in Show HN: BeaconDB – An Alternative to Mozilla Location Services
  3. …With the stepping down having been cancelled and the recently repeated paranoid accusations in https://github.com/mozilla/ichnaea/issues/2065#issuecomment-... the present situation of GrapheneOS is far from good, it's an "absolutely do not…
    comment by onli · 2024-04-06 · in Asus refunds Zenfone buyer for failing to provide bootloader unlock tools
  4. He just made it on-topic: https://github.com/mozilla/ichnaea/issues/2065#issuecomment-... . For real, that's acceptable to you?
    comment by onli · 2024-03-16 · in Mozilla will be retiring the Mozilla Location Service
  5. …and set the browser.search.geoip.url preference to a blank string. Also related is [3]. [1]: https://github.com/mozilla/ichnaea/issues/2065#issuecomment-... [2]: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-stop-firefox-making... [3]:…
    comment by nanis · 2024-03-16 · in Mozilla will be retiring the Mozilla Location Service
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    story by foresterre · 2024-03-16 · 132 comments
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    story by politelemon · 2024-03-15 · 1 comment
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  9. …(blue dots) and Mozilla Location Service's estimate (red dots) so you can compare the difference. https://github.com/mozilla/ichnaea We store signal strength for possible future use, but our current location algorithms don't use it.…
    comment by cpeterso · 2014-10-29 · in Mozilla Stumbler 1.0
  10. We're going to put some more information there on why we don't publish wifi at this point. https://github.com/mozilla/ichnaea/issues/330 In a nutshell though, we don't know how to do this yet without creating a privacy nightmare.
    comment by crankycoder1975 · 2014-10-29 · in Mozilla Stumbler 1.0
  11. Good question, I added a ticket to get this addressed: https://github.com/mozilla/ichnaea/issues/330 I wrote about some of the topics a while back. Not all of it is up-to-date but it gives the broader context:…
    comment by hannosch · 2014-10-29 · in Mozilla Stumbler 1.0
  12. …https://github.com/mozilla/socorro marketplace: https://github.com/mozilla/zamboni geolocation: https://github.com/mozilla/ichnaea support: https://github.com/mozilla/kitsune MDN: https://github.com/mozilla/kuma
    comment by reubenmorais · 2014-08-18 · in Introducing Rec Room
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    Mozilla Ichnaea: geo-location from cellphone towers, wifi networks, etc
    story by macdhuibh · 2014-01-29 · 3 comments
  14. The docs should be fixed now. Thanks for pointing out the problem. <:) https://github.com/mozilla/ichnaea/compare/3a3ed20df078...4e... The location API depends on having wifi measurements in our database, which is still tiny compared to…
    comment by cpeterso · 2013-10-28 · in Mozilla Location Service: Geolocation lookups from public cell tower, WiFi data
  15. …. The client code is at https://github.com/dougt/MozStumbler/ and the server code is at https://github.com/mozilla/ichnaea/ .
    comment by cpeterso · 2013-10-28 · in Mozilla Location Service: Geolocation lookups from public cell tower, WiFi data
  16. …configuration for celery. Mozilla circus is a nice process (& socket) management tool. [1] https://github.com/mozilla/ichnaea [2] http://circus.readthedocs.org/en/0.9.2/
    comment by chanux · 2013-10-28 · in Mozilla Location Service: Geolocation lookups from public cell tower, WiFi data
  17. …. The client code is at https://github.com/dougt/MozStumbler/ and the server code is at https://github.com/mozilla/ichnaea/ . The client UI a little geeky now, but we have some gamification ideas akin to Google's Ingress or Nintendo's…
    comment by cpeterso · 2013-10-28 · in Introducing the Mozilla Location Service (experiment)