How the Apple iPhone is Tracking You
While it is hard to get information off the Apple iPhone, the smart phone itself is keeping a very tight list of information about its users. And this is why losing an iPhone is not only expensive, but it is also dangerous.
It has been reported that it is the police that are mostly doing the forensic work using iPhone data as evidence; nothing will stop a malicious individual to turn the tables on unsuspecting people. Here are a few things that all iPhone users should know about their smart phones.
First off, never type anything suspicious or compromising on your iPhone. The Apple device’s dictionary is not only designed to help people type faster on the virtual keyboard, but also for being able to keylog the messages that you have typed from anywhere between the last three months to even a whole year ago.
While specifics have not been revealed, one can only assume that the logs extend only up to certain point, and users who text heavily may have only the most recent messages in the cache.
Now if that was not scary enough, the iPhone can also provide the world of a user’s whereabouts. While phone signal triangulation through cell sites are a pretty common practice, the iPhone also has geo-tagging set to “on” by default. Yes, this means that those self images that users took when they woke up that morning and uploaded in the net are carrying a small line of data that actually points out their GPS location.
Speaking of GPS, the iPhone also takes a quick screen shot of the map whenever the map function is turned off. While the actual purpose of this image is not known, the number of these images can be quite plenty –enough to draw a rough map of places that users have been to and checked out, and quite possibly, enough to create a reasonably accurate profile.
Tags: Apple, Apple-iPhone, geo-tagging, GPS, security, smartphone
