Recently, a set of third party Ingress tools became widely known. There's an ongoing discussion about the motivation behind creating these tools; let's leave that question alone. Their purpose was to allow Ingress players to track the movement and actions of their opposition. They operated by pulling down semi-public messages from the game's chat system.
One of the things the tools can do is figure out where a player chat message originates. I.e., if BobHoward types "hey, anyone up for playing in Leeds?" the tools were able to attach an origin location to the message. This is somewhat perplexing, since the packets of data that carry that message to the game client(s) do not contain an origin location.
Turns out that a clever developer took advantage of the feature that allows you to control the radius from your current location from which you see messages. I.e., if I'm a player in New York, I probably don't want to see people chatting in Leeds -- so I set my radius to 5 km and I only see messages from roughly a 5 km circle around my current position. (Yes, I am oversimplifying a bit.)
If you have a lot of robots watching the Ingress chat stream, you can triangulate approximate location by keeping track of which ones can see a given chat message and which ones can't.
An aop's datastream must be useful to the client device. If Tinder knows where you are, that data can be extracted. If Tinder provides side channel data that permits for triangulation... well, you know the rest.
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Larry Correia reaching out to Milo Yiannopolous asking for Gamergate help: https://twitter.com/monsterhunter45/statuses/559761358124642305 and https://twitter.com/monsterhunter45/statuses/559761848040292352
Milo writing about the Hugos in February: https://twitter.com/nero/status/563420873332637696
Was Gamergate interested or relevant? Nope. But the Puppies definitely wanted Gamergate help.
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