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I think it’s time to go back to the good, old Nokia phone that so carelessly gave up for a fancy, shiny smartphone. dbreunig: Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden (whom I’m convinced doesn’t sleep) have discovered that iPhones record your locations in a local, unencrypted file. “All iPhones appear to log your location to a file called ‘consolidated.db.’ This contains latitude-longitude coordinates along with a timestamp. The coordinates aren’t always exact, but they are pretty detailed.” (via O’Reilly Radar) Update: Grab Warden’s app here.

I think it’s time to go back to the good, old Nokia phone that so carelessly gave up for a fancy, shiny smartphone.

dbreunig:

Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden (whom I’m convinced doesn’t sleep) have discovered that iPhones record your locations in a local, unencrypted file.

“All iPhones appear to log your location to a file called ‘consolidated.db.’ This contains latitude-longitude coordinates along with a timestamp. The coordinates aren’t always exact, but they are pretty detailed.” (via O’Reilly Radar)

Update: Grab Warden’s app here.

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    thank god i have an android phone, oh, wait…balls.
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    …so if you ever get kidnapped and you own an iphone, you’re in luck! or you wake up after blacking out and have no idea...
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    I think it’s time...the good, old Nokia phone that so carelessly gave up for
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    haha so happy i don’t...one, Oceania is not my idea of
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    Now I really wish I had an iPhone. Be honest: it’d be fun to have your phone map all of the places you’ve been, right?...
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    Holy crap! That’s incredible! And possibly unethical! If you’re an iPhone user, Check out the App at the bottom of the...
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