iphone追踪和收集用户的每一个移动

老杏

安全专家发现iphone悄悄的记录用户的每一个位置和移动，并储存在手机里。当手机和电脑同步的时候，上传并存储到电脑里。这个收集是从2010年6月iOS 4升级以后开始的。

任何人接触到手机或者电脑都很容易知道机主曾经去过什么地方。安全专家做了一个网页让机主可以检查手机储存的这些信息。
http://petewarden.github.com/iPhoneTracker/

这些信息在有3G功能的ipad上也被记录。

正常手机公司记录的用户位置信息只有在经过法庭同意以后才可以给警察及相关机构使用。

但是，在itune 15200字的条款的最后，有一段86个字的条款，说明苹果会收集，使用及和合作伙伴共享这些位置的信息，用于改善产品和服务。



Security researchers have discovered that Apple's iPhone keeps track of where you go - and saves every detail to a secret file on the device which is copied to the owner's computer when synchronised.
The file contains the latitude and longitude of the phone's recorded coordinates along with a timestamp, meaning that anyone who stole the phone or the computer could discover details about the owner's movements using a simple program.
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For some phones, there could be almost a year's worth of data stored, as the recording of data seems to have started with Apple's iOS 4 update to the phone's operating system, released in June 2010.
Pete Warden, one of the researchers, said: "Apple has made it possible for almost anybody ... with access to your phone or computer to get detailed information about where you've been."

Only the iPhone records the user's location in this way, say Warden and Alasdair Allan, the data scientists who discovered the file and are presenting their findings at the Where 2.0 conference in San Francisco on Wednesday. "We haven't come across any instances of other phone manufacturers doing this," said Warden.
Simon Davies, director of the pressure group Privacy International, said: "This is a worrying discovery. The existence of that data creates a real threat to privacy."
Warden and Allan point out that the file is moved on to new devices: "The fact that [the file] is transferred across is evidence that the data-gathering isn't accidental."
Mobile networks already record phones' locations, but it is only available to the police and other recognised organisations following a court order under the Regulation of Investigatory Power Act. The iPhone system appears to record the data whether or not the user agrees. Apple declined to comment on why the file is created or whether it can be disabled.
The researchers have set up a web page at Pete Warden's website to let Apple users check location data the phone is retaining. The Guardian has confirmed that 3G-enabled devices, including the iPad, also retain the data.
Graham Cluley, at the security company Sophos, suggested that Apple might be seeking data for advertising targeted by location, but he added: "I tend to subscribe to cockup rather than conspiracy on things like this - I don't think Apple is really trying to monitor where users are."
However, Apple can legitimately claim that it has permission to collect the data. Near the end of the 15,200-word terms and conditions for its iTunes program is an 86-word paragraph that says: "Apple and our partners and licensees may collect, use, and share precise location data, including the real-time geographic location of your Apple computer or device. This location data is collected anonymously in a form that does not personally identify you and is used ... to improve location-based products and services."

http://www.theage.com.au/digital ... 20110421-1dpab.html

[ 本帖最后由 clur 于 2011-4-21 11:08 编辑 ]

degra

很好，可以知道另一半去过那里

kr2000

这个软件可以找到iphone的使用者去了神马地方
它不是用来追踪的，只是用来显示iphone里的隐藏信息

想知道ld最近去了神马地方吗？试试这个软件

http://petewarden.github.com/iPhoneTracker/

kr2000

上了个厕所回来再发就晚了
请版主删帖

原帖由 clur 于 2011-4-21 11:14 发表
你发的晚了

http://www.oursteps.com.au/bbs/v ... &extra=page%3D1

kr2000

苹果搜集这些信息的目的到底是神马？

老杏

文章里说可能是为了以后按地区卖广告收集的信息。

happysee

可以看出哪里交通堵塞,哪里道路顺畅.google map里早就有这个功能了,说明google一直在干这事.

felix100

原帖由 happysee 于 2011-4-21 11:30 发表
可以看出哪里交通堵塞,哪里道路顺畅.google map里早就有这个功能了,说明google一直在干这事.

MAP很正常，你也不是每天都用MAP啊。

老杏

Alasdair Allan说这个可能是一个失误，理由是如果苹果真的想收集信息，就不应该这么容易被他发现！

苹果仍然没有回应。

The iPhone and iPad’s ability to logs users’ whereabouts is probably a mistake that Apple Inc. (AAPL) will eliminate, said the researchers who discovered the feature.

"If this was a conspiracy, this file would have been hidden better and we wouldn’t have found it,’’ said Alasdair Allan, one of the computer programmers who discovered the tracking feature. “Our best guess is this was an engineering mistake.”

Allan and former Apple software engineer Pete Warden said they stumbled upon the file where all the location data was being stored by accident while toying with the iPhone to see what other data could be pulled from the device. They were surprised to find a file with about 29,000 logs of their whereabouts -- about a year’s worth.

They determined that Apple’s iOS 4 operating system for the iPhone and iPad 3G is logging latitude-longitude coordinates along with the time stamp of when a spot was visited. The data is transferred to the hard drive of a computer when the 3G iPhone or iPad is synched.

"As data geeks, my first reaction was, ‘this is really cool; I love seeing this story of my life play out on a map,’" said Allan. "My second reaction was, ‘I don’t want anybody else to see.’"

If the feature isn’t eliminated by Apple, customers at least need to be able to opt out of having their movements logged, said Warden, who used to work on Mac software at Apple.

"The key difference is permission and control," he said. "With this file you have no control over that. The user can’t give informed consent."

‘Serious’ Concerns

The discovery has led to criticism of Apple from privacy groups, regulators in France and Germany, as well as U.S. lawmakers. Allan and Warden said they reached out to Apple about the tracking before publishing their results yesterday and didn’t hear back.

"The existence of this information -- stored in an unencrypted format -- raises serious privacy concerns," U.S. Senator Al Franken, a Democrat from Minnesota, said in a letter to Apple Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs seeking answers to questions about how the tracking data is being used.

Apple didn’t respond to multiple requests for comment. The company has previously told lawmakers that it collects location information about users of its smartphones, the Wall Street Journal reported today.

Allan and Warden said they hope publicizing the issue will ensure that Apple addresses the tracking feature. They also suggest users choose to encrypt data that’s being transferred from their iPad or iPhone.

“What we’ve been telling everyone is don’t panic,” said Warden. At the same time, "we need to make sure this is fixed."

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/20 ... esearchers-say.html

[ 本帖最后由 clur 于 2011-4-22 10:17 编辑 ]

老杏

同一个事情，不同的人写出来就是不同的情况。

阴谋论的人或许会想，难道这是苹果的又一次市场营销吗？

P.S
两个发现者：Alasdair Allan是软件编程人员；Pete Warden是前苹果公司软件工程师。

o2h2o

苹果为啥不加密
没搞明白