Anonymous
Post 07/13/2016 10:23     Subject: Re:Pokemon Go???? is your DC playing?
But with this Pokemon stuff you are being lured towards bait. That bait may or may not be safe and it may or may not be in a safe location. There may be a predator there waiting for prey to hunt.


I play it with my son and his best friend, because they are too young to cross major streets alone. We are not going to go into the basement of some random house, or behind a dumpster in an abandoned parking lot, even if it says there are pokemon there. I think playing around our relatively safe neighborhood and near their camp in DC pretty much ensures that we will not become "prey"
Anonymous
Post 07/13/2016 10:05     Subject: Pokemon Go???? is your DC playing?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:My DS LOVES it Unfortunately over here in suburbia, there is no poke stops or gyms, so being a good mom, I went on a long lunch time walk around DC. Got the biggest hug EVER in the eve. Whole family is going to explore Rio tomorrow, I heard there are bunch of them there.


What are you talking about? I live in suburbia and within 2 miles of my home are 5 Pokestops and 2 gyms.


Lucky you, closest pokestop to us is about 2 mi away across major highway. No way I am going to let my kid go there by himself.
Anonymous
Post 07/13/2016 10:00     Subject: Pokemon Go???? is your DC playing?
Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:So all a pedophile or mugger has to do is get this app and wait for the kids to come?


Already happened. Robbers in St. Louis suburb used the game to target victims.

http://www.kmov.com/story/32419951/how-police-are-responding-after-recent-robbery-involving-pokemon-go


Wrong link. Try this one:

http://www.kmov.com/story/32410689/4-suspects-conducted-armed-robberies-using-pokemon-go-police-say


Overblown. One incident. Don't be so paranoid.


Right - and someone could lie in wait while you're hiking on a trail - but it doesn't stop you from hiking. Common-sense precautions.


Why would they lie in wait for specifically *me* on a hiking trail? Who would even know that I was going to hike the trail?

That's different than following your phone to some random location designated by ??



And the theoretical beacon wasn't specifically targeted to one person either, but someone waiting to see if someone came to a remote location. Opportunistic. Similarly, someone may stake out a remote location on a trail and do the same thing - again opportunistic and not targeted to any one person. Don't go to remote locations. Don't go alone. Exercise common sense. Just like you would tell your teens who are hiking or going into the City to sightsee.


A hiking trail is accessible to anyone true enough. But if you go at busy times you will see others using the trail too. Same thing with a parking lot at a grocery store.

But with this Pokemon stuff you are being lured towards bait. That bait may or may not be safe and it may or may not be in a safe location. There may be a predator there waiting for prey to hunt.
Anonymous
Post 07/13/2016 09:53     Subject: Pokemon Go???? is your DC playing?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:So all a pedophile or mugger has to do is get this app and wait for the kids to come?


Already happened. Robbers in St. Louis suburb used the game to target victims.

http://www.kmov.com/story/32419951/how-police-are-responding-after-recent-robbery-involving-pokemon-go


Wrong link. Try this one:

http://www.kmov.com/story/32410689/4-suspects-conducted-armed-robberies-using-pokemon-go-police-say


Overblown. One incident. Don't be so paranoid.


Right - and someone could lie in wait while you're hiking on a trail - but it doesn't stop you from hiking. Common-sense precautions.


Why would they lie in wait for specifically *me* on a hiking trail? Who would even know that I was going to hike the trail?

That's different than following your phone to some random location designated by ??



And the theoretical beacon wasn't specifically targeted to one person either, but someone waiting to see if someone came to a remote location. Opportunistic. Similarly, someone may stake out a remote location on a trail and do the same thing - again opportunistic and not targeted to any one person. Don't go to remote locations. Don't go alone. Exercise common sense. Just like you would tell your teens who are hiking or going into the City to sightsee.
Anonymous
Post 07/13/2016 09:46     Subject: Pokemon Go???? is your DC playing?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:So all a pedophile or mugger has to do is get this app and wait for the kids to come?


Already happened. Robbers in St. Louis suburb used the game to target victims.

http://www.kmov.com/story/32419951/how-police-are-responding-after-recent-robbery-involving-pokemon-go


Wrong link. Try this one:

http://www.kmov.com/story/32410689/4-suspects-conducted-armed-robberies-using-pokemon-go-police-say


Overblown. One incident. Don't be so paranoid.


Right - and someone could lie in wait while you're hiking on a trail - but it doesn't stop you from hiking. Common-sense precautions.


Why would they lie in wait for specifically *me* on a hiking trail? Who would even know that I was going to hike the trail?

That's different than following your phone to some random location designated by ??

Anonymous
Post 07/13/2016 09:15     Subject: Pokemon Go???? is your DC playing?
Anonymous wrote:The success of Pokémon GO is great for its creator Niantic, and for the millions who have downloaded it. Except for one thing: there’s major security vulnerability, and should NEVER be used at NSWCCD or our detachments.

Two days after the game’s release, security expert Adam Reeve tweeted about the vulnerability. The Pokémon GO app itself does NOT warn new users as to exactly how much privacy they are sacrificing.

“Full access.” That should sound like a bit much. It is. Reeve writes in a post titled “Pokémon Go is a huge security risk” on his blog. In his tweet linking to the post, he calls the app malware. The biggest takeaway is that “full access” just means:

Pokémon Go and Niantic can now:
• Read all your email
• Send email as you
• Access all your Google drive documents (including deleting them)
• Look at your search history and your Maps navigation history
• Access any private photos you may store in Photos
• And a whole lot more


Yes - if you access through your gmail account at the beginning of the craze. If you set up a trainer account, no. Also, Niantic just released this statement: “Pokémon Go only accesses basic Google profile information (specifically, your User ID and email address) and no other Google account information is or has been accessed or collected,” reads a statement from Niantic, which developed the game.

Niantic added that Google will soon change the app so that it only asks for permission to view users’ basic profile data. The change will take effect automatically. "
Anonymous
Post 07/13/2016 09:13     Subject: Pokemon Go???? is your DC playing?
Anonymous wrote:The success of Pokémon GO is great for its creator Niantic, and for the millions who have downloaded it. Except for one thing: there’s major security vulnerability, and should NEVER be used at NSWCCD or our detachments.

Two days after the game’s release, security expert Adam Reeve tweeted about the vulnerability. The Pokémon GO app itself does NOT warn new users as to exactly how much privacy they are sacrificing.

“Full access.” That should sound like a bit much. It is. Reeve writes in a post titled “Pokémon Go is a huge security risk” on his blog. In his tweet linking to the post, he calls the app malware. The biggest takeaway is that “full access” just means:

Pokémon Go and Niantic can now:
• Read all your email
• Send email as you
• Access all your Google drive documents (including deleting them)
• Look at your search history and your Maps navigation history
• Access any private photos you may store in Photos
• And a whole lot more


The WaPo debunked this yesterday. As long as you download it from a reputable source like googleaps you are fine. The malware versions are the ones available on "sketchy" websites. Just make sure your kid is getting the safe version
Anonymous
Post 07/13/2016 09:11     Subject: Pokemon Go???? is your DC playing?
Anonymous wrote:My son (7) and I enjoy playing together. We live in Old Town Alexandria, and there have not been as many pokestops as I expected here, though.


Downtown Annapolis has many, many pokestops.
Anonymous
Post 07/13/2016 09:09     Subject: Pokemon Go???? is your DC playing?
Anonymous wrote:My DS LOVES it Unfortunately over here in suburbia, there is no poke stops or gyms, so being a good mom, I went on a long lunch time walk around DC. Got the biggest hug EVER in the eve. Whole family is going to explore Rio tomorrow, I heard there are bunch of them there.


North Bethesda suburbs - TON of pokestops and gyms. Trolley Trail etc.
Anonymous
Post 07/13/2016 09:07     Subject: Pokemon Go???? is your DC playing?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:So all a pedophile or mugger has to do is get this app and wait for the kids to come?


Already happened. Robbers in St. Louis suburb used the game to target victims.

http://www.kmov.com/story/32419951/how-police-are-responding-after-recent-robbery-involving-pokemon-go


Wrong link. Try this one:

http://www.kmov.com/story/32410689/4-suspects-conducted-armed-robberies-using-pokemon-go-police-say


Overblown. One incident. Don't be so paranoid.


Right - and someone could lie in wait while you're hiking on a trail - but it doesn't stop you from hiking. Common-sense precautions.
Anonymous
Post 07/13/2016 09:01     Subject: Pokemon Go???? is your DC playing?
The success of Pokémon GO is great for its creator Niantic, and for the millions who have downloaded it. Except for one thing: there’s major security vulnerability, and should NEVER be used at NSWCCD or our detachments.

Two days after the game’s release, security expert Adam Reeve tweeted about the vulnerability. The Pokémon GO app itself does NOT warn new users as to exactly how much privacy they are sacrificing.

“Full access.” That should sound like a bit much. It is. Reeve writes in a post titled “Pokémon Go is a huge security risk” on his blog. In his tweet linking to the post, he calls the app malware. The biggest takeaway is that “full access” just means:

Pokémon Go and Niantic can now:
• Read all your email
• Send email as you
• Access all your Google drive documents (including deleting them)
• Look at your search history and your Maps navigation history
• Access any private photos you may store in Photos
• And a whole lot more
Anonymous
Post 07/13/2016 08:36     Subject: Re:Pokemon Go???? is your DC playing?
Honestly, that bomb that the boy stepped on (blew off his lower leg) in Central Park is still weighing on me. So I'm o.k. with my kids opting out of this game to be truthful.


I'm not trying to make fun of you, but that really isn't a reasonable worry. If you don't want your kids to play the game or think it is worthwhile, that's fine, its a silly game, but it is unhealthy to obsessively worry about unlikely events like the Central Park bomb that we have no control over anyway.
Anonymous
Post 07/13/2016 08:36     Subject: Pokemon Go???? is your DC playing?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:My DS LOVES it Unfortunately over here in suburbia, there is no poke stops or gyms, so being a good mom, I went on a long lunch time walk around DC. Got the biggest hug EVER in the eve. Whole family is going to explore Rio tomorrow, I heard there are bunch of them there.


What are you talking about? I live in suburbia and within 2 miles of my home are 5 Pokestops and 2 gyms.


I work at a suburban hospital. Somebody set up a Pokegym at the entrance.
Anonymous
Post 07/13/2016 08:34     Subject: Pokemon Go???? is your DC playing?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:This will all end in tears when some moron wanders in front of a car while "catching" a Pokemon critter.


I almost got one today. A 20-something walked into the street against the light; her head buried in her phone.


And you know for sure that she was playing Pokemon, rather than texting her boyfriend or checking Facebook or looking at YikYak?
Anonymous
Post 07/13/2016 08:32     Subject: Pokemon Go???? is your DC playing?
Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:No. My kids haven't been playing. They aren't that interested in this.

Honestly, that bomb that the boy stepped on (blew off his lower leg) in Central Park is still weighing on me. So I'm o.k. with my kids opting out of this game to be truthful.


Yes!! Keep them indoors all summer long to avoid the 1 in 10 million chance they step on a homemade explosive device.


Uhh, they go outside and are probably more active than your kids are. They are not out walking around following some app on their phone...looking for planted Pokemon stuff.

I know it's all in the name of fun. Just call me paranoid. No biggie.



That's exactly what I did and you got defensive.


Yeah. You were kind of rude...