2011年4月21日星期四

Researchers map evidence that iOS 4 draws all your trip again (updated)

If you not already know your Smartphone too much about you think, here is a handy reminder. A duo of UK researchers have discovered a potentially disturbing (and oddly enough, undocumented) function in iOS 4: it asks your iPhone to your site continuously, record then timestamp, that data and records it for posterity. The problem with this unwanted location tracking is that the hidden file with the data-consolidated.db-discover and read, so you your phone to have backed up all desktops is relatively simple, and the phone itself, risks as they usually were the greater privacy. Some additional digging revealed that this behavior on a good while (see Courbis link below), involved mainly by persons, computer forensics since is known. Restore a backup, or when you migrate to a new device is also the data logging in motion, which the researchers on as evidence to show that what is happening is not random. Find a few visualizations of the extracted results on video after the break.

[Thanks to Tom]

Update: The original text of this article has been updated accordingly, that this is already a known issue, if only in limited circles. New is the ability to visualize the data easily.

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