Ok Apple this is not cool
" If you're worried about it, maybe you shouldn't keep a GPS chip in your damn pocket. I'm cool with it, I don't have much to hide. Oh, there is all of that meth fueled gay sex I've been having downtown, but that was gonna come out sooner or later. "sounds HOT!
The device is called Cellebrite.
So now that your phone can log everywhere you've been, store that data indefinitely, (data is not totally erased when deleted off your storage devices), and can then be instantly retrieved by police when they decide for whatever reason to pull you over or search you. All your phone records, conversation logs, GPS tracking logs, e-mail, internet, pictures, videos, mp3's the whole shabang. It bypasses any passwords or encryptions you have on your phone. Effectively it's making a duplicate image copy of all data on your phone. Data transfer rates are high enough these days that GB's of date can be transferred in less than a minute.
"I don't have a cell phones anymore so i'm good.The device is called Cellebrite.
So now that your phone can log everywhere you've been, store that data indefinitely, (data is not totally erased when deleted off your storage devices), and can then be instantly retrieved by police when they decide for whatever reason to pull you over or search you. All your phone records, conversation logs, GPS tracking logs, e-mail, internet, the whole shabang.
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" @TooWalrus said:Pictures or it didn't happen." If you're worried about it, maybe you shouldn't keep a GPS chip in your damn pocket. I'm cool with it, I don't have much to hide. Oh, there is all of that meth fueled gay sex I've been having downtown, but that was gonna come out sooner or later. "sounds HOT! "
I tend to magnate wipe all the drives that I have no use for anymore, you can never be too careful about what data your leaving behind that you don't realize.
" I don't really care. Nothing to hide. "IMHO this is the mentality that has damned the word to the state that it is in today.
Being diverted from the focus of personal liberty and quickly excusing such acts in he belief that it doesn't effect you (personally) anyhow.
It might not affect *you* now. Right now you may not have anything to hide. Right now you may be completely innocent, but you can continue doing the same thing for everyday only to be labeled guilty at a later time.
If one day breathing oxygen without paying an 'oxygen license' is outlawed, you then have something "to hide". You can be living your life peacefully for years on end, but all it takes is the world to change for what you consider to be normal to now be outside the line of what is acceptable.
If you think the oxygen metaphor is an unrealistic one; just think back to the third reich. A whole lot of people didn't think they they had anything to hide either. Throw a man gone kookoo bananas into the picture and all of the sudden they have something to hide. This is not an isolate incident. Throughout history acceptable behavior has shifted based on those in power. And I hate to say it, but humans have a real knack for cherry-picking some of the most hate-mongering minds we've ever created to lead us.
My point here is very simple: you may not have anything to hide today, but one day when some very uncool dudes decide to change the rules, you might.
I'm not trying to turn a mound into a mountain or anything, but I take serious offense to whenever people say this same thing over and over because it just echoes why we are where we are today.
Google knows what you search. Apple where you are. FB who your friends are. And now EU is going to store every SMS, E-mail etc "for use against criminals". Coupled with CCTV that is getting more and more popular and RFID chips in every ID-card...
"nothing to hide, nothing to fear" should not be an excuse. Wanting something to be private doesn't necessarily mean it's something illegal or to be ashamed of, it's a basic right. One we're losing a little bit at a time..
Isn't it possible that this isn't an evil plan from the government/ apple to track your every move? I feel like there's a very strong possibility that this information could be used to track signal strength in various locations for different locations. Or maybe they're coming for you. Either could be true.
This is just Apple being lazy in their implementation of location functionality in iOS, it's very useful for the system to have a long history of where you've been so that it can create a statistically sound guess as to where you are now even without GPS enabled.
I'd first start talking about the prices they charge for their sub-par products which receive few new features every year before we begin talking about what else -isn't- cool about Apple.
I'm surprised this blew up the way it did recently. I watched a show like 6 months ago talking about the tech on iphones and chipped credit cards etc monitoring peoples locations. They've been talking about this tracking stuff for years for *alleged* security purposes with borders and airports etc.
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