iPhone Spies On Users – If you’re planning on committing a crime, you might want to avoid using your iPhone because it spies on you.
An entire field of forensic study revolves around data-mining the popular device because it records a wealth of information about the person using it.
For example, whenever you close the iPhone’s map application, the iPhone covertly snaps and stores a screenshot which gives police a handy record of your whereabouts.
Of course, any phone can contain data, but it’s easier to grab evidence off an iPhone than a Blackberry or Android phone, law enforcement officials told reporters.
“Very, very few people have any idea how to actually remove data from their phone,” says one cell phone forensic researcher. “It may look like everything’s gone, but for anybody who’s got a clue, retrieving that information is easy.”
Besides storing cell phone call and text message histories, the iPhone also embeds photos with GEO tags and identifying information, meaning that photos posted online might not only include GPS coordinates of where the picture was taken, but also the serial number of the phone that took it.
iPhone applications store even more information, including the user’s browser history. That data is meant in part to direct custom-tailored advertisements to the user, but experts said that some of it could prove useful to police.
The iPhone itself automatically shoots and stores hundreds of such images as people close out one application to use another.
“Those screen snapshots can contain images of e-mails or proof of activities that might be inculpatory, or exculpatory,” Minor said.
And that’s the buzz at HitsUSA about how the iPhone Spies On Users.
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July 11th, 2010 at 5:03 am
hehehe! serves em right!