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IPhones: A huge privacy risk!

  • 11-07-2010 12:32pm
    #1
    Dude111
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,771 ✭✭✭


    http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100707/NEWS06/7070336&template=fullarticle

    This things stores MUCH MORE INFO than most people are aware of!!

    Who knows who it is sending the data to!!
    Every time an iPhone user closes out of the built-in mapping application, the phone snaps a screenshot and stores it.
    If i ever stooped so low as to get one of these pieces of garbage,I WOULD SMASH THE CAMERA TO HELL!! (The whole unit so it couldnt take pics of anything)
    "Those screen snapshots can contain images of e-mails or proof of activities that might be inculpatory, or exculpatory," Minor said.
    IT IS TOTALLY UNREAL HOW PEOPLE ALL "LOVE THIS TECHNOLOGY" THEY DONT STOP TO THINK HOW DANGEROUS IT REALLY IS!!!!!!

    It is keeping track of everything they do..... I HAVENT EVER LIKED THIS NEWER GARBAGE AND I WONT EVER LIKE IT.... ITS MADE TO SPY ON PEOPLE AND THE SAD PART IS HOW MANY "LOVE IT" AND THEY WONT LISTEN AND DONT CARE ABOUT THIER PRIVACY........


    What has happend to people??? (They willingly give thier life away now and dont care)


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  • #2
    aidan_walsh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭aidan_walsh


    /facepalm

    1) The camera has nothing to do with taking a screenshot.
    2) Its a common trick with App developers to take a screenshot of the last state of the screen, especially when you are going to be restoring to the same state, to show something while the app is quickly loading in the background.
    3) Taking a screenshot of an app before closing is going to be able to take a screenshot of any other part of your phone... how? EDIT - Nevermind, not fully awake yet and just got what they were saying about this.


  • #3
    Dude111
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,771 ✭✭✭Dude111


    It has been long known that if your phone has a battery and the right firmware the NSA could spy on you all day without you ever knowing.

    Apple has said they know your location when using your phone and they have been collecting this useful information.

    Have a read of just this small piece and add all the other junk and you have a global grid of the planet combined with autonomous robots that can shoot you from the sky or listen to anyone within minutes.


    http://www.activistpost.com/2010/07/ten-ways-we-are-being-tracked-traced.html


  • #4
    sdanseo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,244 ✭✭✭sdanseo


    Go away you absolute fruitcake. I have an iPhone and have had for ages and the NSA haven't sniped me out of it just yet...nor am I quaking in fear of my head being removed by a 7.62mm anytime soon.

    Off with you to conspiracy theories and stop bloody shouting at me.

    You should actually need to have a fcuking licence to use the internet, god almighty.


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