Wednesday, April 20, 2011

iPhone secretly recorded their every move

A report by the Guardian, you listen up: Apparently Apple's iPhone all the movements of the user stored in a hidden file.

Such motion profiles created the iPhone in secret

Security experts Warden and Alasdair Allan found a file that detects the iPhone at regular intervals the user's location via GPS and provides this information with date and time, says the Guardian. Closes in order to be iPhone synchronization to a computer, the phone that file transfers secretly on the computer. Episode: Any unauthorized person is able to create a special program with a full motion profile. Apparently these heretofore secret function part of the operating system "iOS 4 ". Android devices have such a function not according to the experts.

Why Apple meticulously collecting this information is not yet clear. The security experts that the transfer of the file to Apple will probably not take place. Possible either that the company function in advance of new apps that need the motion profile, built-in.

On a specially created website for this issue is a freeware available for download, select with which the secret file and view the profile on an Apple computer turns on.

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