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Re: [Full-disclosure] Got an iPhone or 3G iPad? Apple is recording your moves



> All iPhones appear to log your location to a file called
> "consolidated.db." This contains latitude-longitude coordinates along
> with a timestamp. The coordinates aren't always exact, but they are
> pretty detailed. There can be tens of thousands of data points in this
> file, and it appears the collection started with iOS 4, so there's
> typically around a year's worth of information at this point. Our best
> guess is that the location is determined by cell-tower triangulation,
> and the timing of the recording is erratic, with a widely varying
> frequency of updates that may be triggered by traveling between cells
> or activity on the phone itself.
>
> http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/04/apple-location-tracking.html

Cool. I got an Iphone 3GS. Consider me ex-user. GG Apple. Let me guess,
co-operation deal with NSA and the U.S goverment paid them some billion
dollars for that.

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