3 Major Issues with the Latest iPhone Tracking “Discovery”

Very interesting post:

Today, two researchers for O’Reilly media published an article claiming discovery of a hidden tracking system on the iOS 4 operating system. Using simple techniques, Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden extracted data off of an iOS version 4 device and wrote an open source software utility to effectively graph this data onto a map. As a fellow researcher, I champion their creativity and their development. As an expert in this field, I have three points of argument to raise.

1) Apple is not collecting this data.

2) This hidden file is neither new nor secret.

3) This “discovery” was published months ago.

(via wilwheaton🙂