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

[Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster () gmail com>]

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Via O'Reilly Radar.

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Today at Where 2.0 Pete Warden and I 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.

The presence of this data on your iPhone, your iPad, and your backups has
security and privacy implications. We've contacted Apple's Product Security
team, but we haven't heard back.

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.


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More:
http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/04/apple-location-tracking.html

- - ferg

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 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawgster(at)gmail.com
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/

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