Beware - iPhones have an "infidelity App"

britexpat
By britexpat

Make sure you've got nothing to hide, or your phone might reveal your secret flings.

It has emerged that iPhones have an 'infidelity app' that can secretly keep track of love cheats and could be viewed by a jealous spouse.

Two British software developers recently exposed that the Apple iphone saves the user's locations and movements, along with a time and date stamp, and stores them in a file.

It then copies the data to the owner's computer whenever the two are synchronised.

"Apple has made it possible for almost anybody - a jealous spouse, a private detective - with access to your phone or computer to get detailed information about where you've been,' the Daily Mail quoted Pete Warden , one of the researchers who discovered the file, as saying.

Warden and his fellow researcher Alasdair Allan have set up a web page giving away a programme that lets Apple users check what location data their phone is storing. Other GPS-enabled smartphones do not have the same function, they said.

And anyone with access to an iPhone user's computer could run Warden and Allan's application and see a map of the phone's movements.

Guardian

By Milky_BarKid• 23 Apr 2011 12:14
Rating: 4/5
Milky_BarKid

KHATTAK etal,

Iphone..dont you get the I in the Iphone. It stands for Intelligence.

So it could any one of the following behind it, just listing a few

1. CIA

2. MI6

3. ISI. (there are double chances of ISI it has two I's)

and so on..

By britexpat• 23 Apr 2011 10:38
britexpat

Too many of us blase about such goings on ...

see following link

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/apr/22/iphone-android-location-based-services?INTCMP=SRCH

By KHATTAK• 23 Apr 2011 09:36
KHATTAK

MI6 also seems to be involved :(

By KHATTAK• 23 Apr 2011 09:20
KHATTAK

CIA is behind all this sh!t. :(

By Milky_BarKid• 22 Apr 2011 23:42
Milky_BarKid

Just when I was thinking of buying one. Might think twice now. Not that I have anything to hide but this whole Iphone tracking thing is so weird..

By strawberry_shisha• 22 Apr 2011 22:35
strawberry_shisha

thanks hawk10

By Hawk10• 22 Apr 2011 22:32
Rating: 4/5
Hawk10

It will store only the location. Some people do something in their own location and does not move to OUT OF BOUND areas.

By strawberry_shisha• 22 Apr 2011 21:56
strawberry_shisha

will it retain even the previous conversations?

By britexpat• 22 Apr 2011 21:54
britexpat

Yes...

Mrs. Khanan has already been briefed on the process :o)

By Khanan• 22 Apr 2011 21:53
Khanan

Will they able to extract that data??

Nothing to worry!

@ Posted from my iPhone 4.

By asif_khan• 22 Apr 2011 21:47
asif_khan

ok thanks for te info now ill not buy an iphone as no one should know where i stalk in the night when i become a werewolf i m happy wit my SE

By crazy for cosmetics• 22 Apr 2011 20:55
crazy for cosmetics

omg i want it!!!!

By kavyaal• 22 Apr 2011 20:52
kavyaal

i know what to gift my husband now. Haah!

By Uranus1• 22 Apr 2011 19:12
Uranus1

Sounds like the perfect wedding gift.

By FlyingAce• 22 Apr 2011 18:51
FlyingAce

Android users are save then.... :)

Sheeww... ;)

By Dracula• 22 Apr 2011 18:34
Dracula

iPhone for sale!

For free if you're married!

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