Your iPhone is tracking your every move
According to security researchers, Pete Warden and Alasdair Allan, a hidden file in Apple's iOS 4 is regularly recording the position of your iPhone. To demonstrate this, the researchers have created a tool that lets you see your own data in action.
Ok, to be fair, Apple Inc is NOT actually accessing your location whereabouts, but your iPhone and 3G iPad are regularly recording the position of your device into a hidden file. This file is unencrypted and unprotected, and it's on any machine you've synched with your iOS device.
Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) wrote a letter to Apple CEO Steve Jobs with concerns that "Anyone who gains access to this single file could likely determine the location of the user's home, the businesses he frequents, the doctors he visits, the schools his children attend, and the trips he has taken over the past months or even a year,"
SpicyMustard recommends the following:
1) Run the tool to see if you should be concerned about this. If you are, do steps #2 and #3.
2) Click on your device within iTunes and then check "Encrypt iPhone Backup" under the "Options" area. This will make sure that if someone gets your laptop or it gets a virus, then this data will not be exposed.
3) Do Not Jailbreak your iDevice. When the device is jailbroken, then any app that you install will have the right to do what ever it wants to do to your iPhone. If you download an App that is Malware and your iPhone is jailbroken, then someone will be able to determine where you live, work, and play.
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