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Ureyesonly
23-04-2011, 02:14 PM
iPhone and iPad on iOS 4.x.x secretly tracks you location (all your moves). Security researchers made new discovery that Apple?s iOS for iPhone (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 1 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. iPad (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 1 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. tracks device?s longitude and latitude. That location information is then stored on your computer?s hard drive once it?s synchronized with the device and can later be accessed by anyone with right computer skills/softwares.
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In the light of this secretly location tracking discovery, Ryan Petrich has released a Cydia tweak ?Untrackerd? to prevent iOS (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 1 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. from tracking your location and saving it to consolidated.db.


Continuously clean up location?s history data in the background.
This package installs a daemon (process that can run in the background) to clean the consolidated.db file.
No new icons are added to your homescreen. There are no options to configure.

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Your device must be jailbroken to install untrackerd.