iPhone GPS tracking
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- ernexbcn0
- lol.. that's not the same thing at all.. he tried to hack Android phone and requires root and doesn't cache as much and tracks towers not your location.. it's a joke fanboy..Boz
- tracks towers not your location.. it's a joke fanboy.. Face it.. APPLE FUCKED UP! Stop defending shit where they are obviously in the wrong and let them fix it.. stop defending something that's wrong.Boz
- obviously in the wrong and let them fix it.. stop defending something that's wrong.Boz
- The iPhone one is tracking towers, not locations. So how is it not the same thing?Nathan_Adams
- dskz0
Damnit they will know about my broken toilet incident.
- scarabin0
yeah, it's bothering me too
- scarabin0
PLUS
there are two cameras on the device, and it's connected all the time in one way or another. which means the motherfuckers can watch you, too
- and listen...scarabin
- they're climbing in your window...Hombre_Lobo
- they be rapin errbodymoldero
- some serious kinky shit here. hahakrok
- It's not watching me nocking one out, is it!pillhead
- kona0
let them watch my boring fucking life, driving to and from work with the occasional stop at a starbucks here and there. the jokes on them.
- boobs0
Can I use this data to find pretty girls and watch them take off their clothes?
- Ancillary0
If you haven't got anything to hide, then you shouldn't have anything to worry about
- I agreebohack
- thats what they all say. the evil gov. but it all come down to i don't want to expose my privacy even tho i have nothing to hide.pango
- plus my life would be the most boring reality show. you don't wanna watch that.pango
- I truly hope you first two here are being sardonic.detritus
- what you have to worry about is the degredation of our privacy standards as a people, not whether you're gonna get busted personallyscarabin
- personallyscarabin
- blah blah blah..nothing to hide... Do you leave the front door to your home unlocked?ayport
- Boz0
"The tech press was abuzz Wednesday with reports that devices running iOS 4 are tracking your friends, co-workers, and family members through an unencrypted ten-digit phone number and other identifying information, including their first and last name. Apple has not commented publicly on the controversy and it's unclear whether Cupertino is even collecting this data, but Minnesota Sen. Al Franken has penned a letter asking Apple for more details.
"The existence of these ten-digit numbers, stored in an unencrypted format—raises serious privacy concerns," Franken, a Democrat, wrote to Apple's Steve Jobs. "Anyone who gains access to these numbers, in conjunction with the first and last names, could use them for all kinds of nefarious actions. They could find out who you called, when, and how long the calls lasted. They might even make contact themselves with anyone you've ever called. It's disgusting!"
In the House, Rep. Edward Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat, sent his own letter to Jobs with a request for information.
A Wednesday blog post published on O'Reilly Radar claimed that devices running iOS 4 are keeping all this personal information and storing it an unencrypted manner. The data is being stored to a file known as "contacts," which is easily discovered on a user's iPhone.
"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 who you've called, and when," wrote Pete Warden, founder of the Data Science Toolkit, and Alasdair Allan, a senior research fellow at the University of Exeter.
But while this data is being stored on your phones and iOS devices, Warden and Allan acknowledge that there is no "evidence to suggest this data is leaving your custody"--aka, being sent to Apple. There is also "no immediate harm that would seem to come from the availability of this data."
"True," Franken said. "But anyone who finds a lost or stolen iPhone or iPad could easily map out the last year of the user's phone calls, through the manipulation of data. And it'd be pretty easy to make a bunch of phone calls to China, too."
As a result, Franken asked Apple to share why it is allowing its devices to keep this information unencrypted, among other things. He also said that Apple should acknowledge ripping off Dieter Rams if they are going to start suing people for ripping them off."
- Ramanisky20
so let me get this straight, someone out there is watching me strum my filthies... live and in real time?
that's hawt..
- dskz0
I just flash my boobs at them.
- Nathan_Adams0
It's not actually GPS (It's cell phone triangulation, which isn't as accurate), and it's not sending any of that data to Apple - so it's not quite the issue some of the news outlets are sensationalising it to be - but it's still not good.
I can understand why it might keep a track (to speed up location services), but that stuff should be well encrypted.
- Who said it's not sending data back to Apple. If you believe that you're living in a dream world .pillhead
- slappy0
I'm pretty easy to find anyway, I'm usually at work or at home. Failing that try the pub.
- BusterBoy0
@Nathan_Adams How do you know this isn't being sent to Apple?
I have nothing to hide, but seriously, why is this needed? If it's not needed, then don't fucking do it...or at least give me the option to opt out.
- The guys who discovered this say there's no evidence of it being transmitted. http://petewarden.gi…Nathan_Adams
- there is no proof but it may very well be that the file is being transmitted to Apple when you sync the device. You just don't know and knowing Apple, it most definitely is being transmitted.Boz
- know and knowing Apple, it most definitely is being transmitted.Boz
- Making shit up again. Provide proof or STFU.Nathan_Adams
- Boz0
LOL at that piece of shit DarringFireball John Gruber..
He thinks it's awesome app and how everything is awesome and doesn't find anything wrong with this but goes on a shit crusade after Google for picking up unencrypted wifi signals while mapping streets.
God I hate that spineless, Jobs balls gargling piece of crap.
- LOL @ Jobs balls garglingBusterBoy
- True story.. Steve Jobs has blow-job sessions at his office every friday, it's called Gruber Fridays.Boz
- Boz needs to leave the basement, 80% of Boz QBN posts are mental anti-apple crapanimatedgif
- hahahapillhead
- so true Boz, hate that fucker... i'd kick him in the face if I saw him on the streetMilan
- dMullins0
If you think that's bad, take a look at this shit going on in Michigan.
- PublicVoice0
Don't worry. Google is not keeping tabs on you. Or Microsoft, either.