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TU Dortmund
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News:
11/14/2022
Delivery Confirmation in Messenger Apps Reveals Recipient’s Location
located, as a research team led by Dr. Theodor Schnitzler has discovered. Data traffic analyzed by software Dr. Schnitzler began his research work on this topic during his doctoral degree at Ruhr-Universität [...] received with the second check mark. To study this phenomenon, they connected a smartphone to laptop software that sent a message every ten seconds to recipient cell phones in Germany, the Netherlands, Greece [...] second step, the researchers repeated the experiment on a local level and sent messages via the software to smartphones in various cities and towns in the Ruhr region. Here, too, they were able to measure …