{"id":52,"date":"2011-04-21T12:57:30","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T04:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.esafeinfo.com\/?p=52"},"modified":"2011-05-03T11:58:29","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T03:58:29","slug":"are-apple-snooping-on-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.esafeinfo.com\/?p=52","title":{"rendered":"Is Apple Snooping on You?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Yesterday at <a href=\"http:\/\/where2conf.com\/where2011\">Where 2.0<\/a> in Santa Clara, Alasdair Allen and Pete Warden revealed some weird news about the iPhone and iPad. According to the Alasdair Allen&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/radar.oreilly.com\/2011\/04\/apple-location-tracking.html\">article<\/a>, the 3G-capable iPad and iPhone have been storing location data in a secret file since the arrival of iOS 4. This data is unencrypted and even it&#8217;s being backed up, restored, and migrated by iTunes.<\/p>\n<p>The iPhone and iPad devices seem to be recording the longitude-latitude coordinates including the the timestamps in a file called \u201cconsolidated.db,\u201d which is stored on any computer you sync your device to. The researchers says that the location information are based on cell-phone tower triangulation, not GPS. So if you turn off your GPS, you are still prone to this privacy breach.\u00a0Accessing this data from your device requires an easy jailbreak but you can get the information even easier off of your computer. Pete Warden published an open source <a href=\"http:\/\/petewarden.github.com\/iPhoneTracker\/\">application<\/a> that can be used to analyze this data on your iOS computer easily.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy watching iPhone Tracking Discussion below where Pete Warden and Alasdair Allan talking about how they discovered the existence of the tracking database on the iPhone and iPad:<br \/>\nhttpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GynEFV4hsA0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday at Where 2.0 in Santa Clara, Alasdair Allen and Pete Warden revealed some weird news about the iPhone and iPad. According to the Alasdair Allen&#8217;s article, the 3G-capable iPad and iPhone have been storing location data in a secret file since the arrival of iOS 4. This data is unencrypted and even it&#8217;s being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.esafeinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.esafeinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.esafeinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.esafeinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.esafeinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.esafeinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57,"href":"https:\/\/blog.esafeinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/57"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.esafeinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.esafeinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.esafeinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}