Posted on 04/20/2011 8:52:34 AM PDT by rivercat
http://petewarden.github.com/iPhoneTracker/#faq
The link above will tell you how to find and look at this data. The phone is recording the location of the cellphone *and* the location of all WiFi access points the phone encounters.
This hidden file is nether new nor secret. It’s just moved. Location services have been available to the Apple device for some time. Understand what this file is — log generated by the various radios and sensors located within the device. This file is utilized by several operations on the device that actually is what makes this device pretty “smart”.
Through my work with various law enforcement agencies, we’ve used h-cells.plist on devices older than iOS 4 to harvest geolocational evidence from iOS devices.
Levinson declined to divulge the names of those agencies, but told the reporter that he had worked with “multiple state and federal agencies both in the U.S. and internationally”.
3 Major Issues with the Latest iPhone Tracking “Discovery”
with proof that it is NOT new and not secret, and not nefariously designed to secretly track anyone.
3 Major Issues with the Latest iPhone Tracking “Discovery”
with proof that it is NOT new and not secret, and not nefariously designed to secretly track anyone.
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