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Re:Your iPhone maps and logs where you are and when you're t... by eddieroger on Tuesday December 17, 2013 @03:29PM (#6923708)
Not news, and also not news, it's easily disabled. Besides, all this shows is that the phone knows, and there are actual uses for it that make me leave it on, like predicting how long it will take to get home or common places I go. As for it's use in advertising, that can be reset as well as opposed to disabled, so I reset that periodically.

Also, this isn't unique to iPhone, [1] and hasn't been since it was discovered on Android as well.

1. http://thenextweb.com/google/2011/04/21/its-not-just-the-iph...

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Re:Your iPhone maps and logs where you are and when you're t... by mikeyanderson on Tuesday December 17, 2013 @04:02PM (#6923944)
Everyone that I showed this screen to on their own phone hadn't ever seen that it existed. It's one thing for the phone to log it in some database. It's another that anyone could pick up your phone and see where you live, work, what time you come home, etc.
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Re:Your iPhone maps and logs where you are and when you're t... by cmsj on Tuesday December 17, 2013 @04:23PM (#6924071)
it'd be awfully tough for them to just go to the Contacts app, pull up your card and see your address :(

Use a passcode for goodness sake! Actively protect your data!

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Re:Your iPhone maps and logs where you are and when you're t... by halviti on Tuesday December 17, 2013 @10:19PM (#6925697)
Passcodes are easily bypassed. Buy an XRY and you can get into any phone.

http://www.msab.com

Same way the police do it.

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Re:Your iPhone maps and logs where you are and when you're t... by superuser2 on Tuesday December 17, 2013 @10:42PM (#6925760)
Modern iPhones are entirely encrypted while locked. The key resides in a crypto processor and is irreversibly destroyed during a brute-force attempt (provided you have this turned on).

These devices need certain plists from the phone's trusted iTunes library (if it even has one) to "break" into modern iPhones.

(Some) Android phones might be vulnerable to these though.

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Re:Your iPhone maps and logs where you are and when you're t... by micampe on Tuesday December 17, 2013 @05:32PM (#6924457)
If someone can see this screen, they have access to your email. Did you disable email too?
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Re:Your iPhone maps and logs where you are and when you're t... by halviti on Tuesday December 17, 2013 @10:13PM (#6925671)
E-mail isn't something that just happens automatically on your phone, you have to set it up, and thus you know it's there and are making a conscious decision that the privacy risks outweigh the value of the service.
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Re:Your iPhone maps and logs where you are and when you're t... by eddieroger on Tuesday December 17, 2013 @05:59PM (#6924603)
Starting with iOS 7, passcode setup happens on first boot. If someone chooses not to put a basic lock on their device (leaving this info vulnerable) then there's much more valuable data that's also exposed.
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