Now, for better or worse Locationgate is about.
As you may recall, said a few researchers last week, that she would found a secret file in the disk backup of every iPhone and cellular IOS. This file, they said, a time stamp list which everywhere where you have with your phone been since June of last year (or, if you iOS 4 installed) contain.
There was no indication they said that this information about Apple, the Government or the Warren Commission has been transferred It was just sitting on your hard drive, accessible only with UNIX commands (or an app that wrote the researchers). But conspiracy theorists went immediately into hysteria.
On Wednesday, Apple responded with a statement, in which the presence of the file. He said "Apple not the location of your iPhone tracked,". "Apple has never done and has no plans to ever do."
The statement goes on to say: "the iPhone is not logging of your site." Rather it is maintaining a database of Wi-Fi hotspots and cell towers to your current location, of which some are more than one hundred miles away may be appropriate from your iPhone to help, quickly and accurately calculate its location when requested, your iPhone. Calculation of the phone location with only GPS satellite data can take several minutes. iPhone and can reduce this time after only a few seconds using Wi-Fi hotspot and cell tower of data for a quick search for GPS satellites, even trianguliert its location via Wi-Fi hotspot and cell tower information when GPS is not available (such as indoors or in the basement). These calculations are live "running on the iPhone with a lot of database of Wi-Fi hotspot and cell tower will send geo-tagged in an anonymous and encrypted form data that generated millions of iPhones, the positions of nearby Wi-Fi hotspots and cell towers to Apple."
So basically, Apple says that the researchers on both counts were wrong. First of all, the "secret file" contains information about the nearby Wi-Fi hotspots and cell towers, not your exact location. And secondly, your device sends information to Apple, although encrypted into an anonymous form.
Now, part of the Apple answer is a little convincing. Yeah, OK, the file contains the location based Wi-Fi hotspots and cell towers - in your area. He not so no record, you sat on the park bench. But it is still tracking - they were what city, and is therefore a record of your trip to keep.
Last week I wrote about based on the information currently available, why I don't think that was such a big deal. First, you are the only one with access to your iTunes backup, and probably you already know where you have been. Secondly so many other ways are, your privacy these days, some much more urgent be because this is at risk. (How come, for example no one in hysteria is over 77 million names, E-mail addresses, passwords and possibly credit card numbers, the Sony expresses their PlayStation database were stolen?)
I am confused by the Hypotheticals that come with people with the conspiracy of genes. Dozens of you wrote to tell me, "before you dismiss our privacy from the hand, as far as concerned about an abusive ex-spouse?"
This is totally illogical. First of all, what good is the ex-husband does it to know where you've been iTunes before the last backup? He can return not just to the last month and speak it.
, To find out, where you have been the ex in your home to your computer would have to be but even more important. And listen: If your abusive ex in your home, sit on your computer, you have much bigger problems than the iTunes backup. What you need is not another phone – it's a locksmith.
As well, the whole is now irrelevant. In a software update in the next couple of weeks stops Apple a location database to your computer, (b) store only a week's worth of hot-spot locations and (c) stop HotSpot locations collect, if you turn off location services backed up.
("The reason why the iPhone store as much data is an error, we found out and plan to fix," says Apple, not totally credible.) "We don't think that the iPhone needs to store more than seven days of this data." (You can read interview about the response, including one time with Steve jobs, here.)
In the next update iOS the location list on the phone itself is encrypted in addition.
What is interesting is that carried out Apple also a preventive strike. It revealed something else your iPhone is tracking: traffic data (probably your iPhone is moving as fast, if it on roadways measurement). "Apple traffic database aiming is now anonymous traffic data, a lot of iPhone users an improved traffic service in the next few years build collect." That would be cool.
This is the second time that Apple has found himself neck deep in a riot p.r. where it blamed the problem on an error. Think of the death grip question, where the iPhone would lose 4 signal bars when your hand the left lower corner covered? And as Apple said that the problem was partly a bug in how the phone counted the number of the bars on the screen to display?
Both times, Apple was apologetic, but it took at least measures through a software update. In this case at least, seems satisfied security consultant. Apparently, the Locationgate case is finished.
Now then. About this PlayStation credit cards…
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