The Spying Apple

[Sionyn]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/apr/20/iphone-tracking-prompts-privacy-fears

[Sionyn]

github repository he compiled it for a mac any other platform you have to compile your self written in objective c

http://petewarden.github.com/iPhoneTracker/

[Simon]

what apple did and microsoft is notorious for is something I just don't understand. How does it help them ? it only justly inflames the issue of privacy and companies acting like pirates. I would not mind a phone with the functionality but I'd want to enable it at my will and for my own purposes. What just reason apple has to track a user i don't know.

I'd also put a halt on these silly long contract and terms. No one will/ has the time to read a 15'000 word contract and to be honest this is more nastiness on these companies parts by creating such insanely large terms and conditions and then burring stuff in there. They should use few words and state the essential. maybe have a short version with key facts in it like: WE WILL STALK YOU !

[Ed.Kloonk]

The contract could still be valid by shortening it to just five words:

We pwn you. Suck eggs.

[Simon]

yes and if it was shorter people could and would read it. cmon you tell me when was the last time you read right through a long contract like that for a mobile phone and didn't get lost/fed up after 1 paragraph because they were going in circles and dragging it out ?

[firewalker]

I think that those data are used by Core Location when there is no GPS or WiFi. As I understand it tracks down the cells near th phone. Not the phone actual location.

[Simon]

all it needs to do for that is know where it is and seek out known cells etc. or just seek them out. It does not need to log everywhere you go

[Sionyn]

i guess its trivial to find some one emitting rf (square distance thing).