1.   sowingdoubt: zadi: kenyatta: Got an iPhone or 3G iPad? Apple is recording your moves Today at Where 2.0 Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden will announce the discovery that your iPhone, and your 3G iPad, is regularly recording the position of your device into a hidden file. Ever since iOS 4 arrived, your device has been storing a long list of locations and time stamps. We’re not sure why Apple is gathering this data, but it’s clearly intentional, as the database is being restored across backups, and even device migrations. What makes this issue worse is that the file is unencrypted and unprotected, and it’s on any machine you’ve synched with your iOS device. It can also be easily accessed on the device itself if it falls into the wrong hands. Anybody with access to this file knows where you’ve been over the last year, since iOS 4 was released. via jennydeluxe’s twitter: O’Reilly Radar Interesting… More like draconian. I wish I was a developer or something more than an onlooker into the programming world cause I’d hack this shit to STOP THAT NOW. The hacking community has got you covered before you even have a chance to complain about a problem that you don’t have: Untrackered.

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    zadi:

    kenyatta:

    Got an iPhone or 3G iPad? Apple is recording your moves

    Today at Where 2.0 Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden will announce the discovery that your iPhone, and your 3G iPad, is regularly recording the position of your device into a hidden file. Ever since iOS 4 arrived, your device has been storing a long list of locations and time stamps. We’re not sure why Apple is gathering this data, but it’s clearly intentional, as the database is being restored across backups, and even device migrations.

    What makes this issue worse is that the file is unencrypted and unprotected, and it’s on any machine you’ve synched with your iOS device. It can also be easily accessed on the device itself if it falls into the wrong hands. Anybody with access to this file knows where you’ve been over the last year, since iOS 4 was released.

    via jennydeluxe’s twitter: O’Reilly Radar

    Interesting…

    More like draconian. I wish I was a developer or something more than an onlooker into the programming world cause I’d hack this shit to STOP THAT NOW.

    The hacking community has got you covered before you even have a chance to complain about a problem that you don’t have: Untrackered.

    Source: radar.oreilly.com

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