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oh, we know where we're going...

By catdynamics on April 22, 2011.

...and now we know where we have been

iSpy@home

as you know, Bob, there has been some flap in the intertoobz and old media that the iPhone keep GPS logs, automatically, by default, unencrypted, that are downloaded during backups...

Cool.

Er, well, maybe they should be turned off as default and be selectively turned on only by user, and maybe some prudent default encryption would also be good.
Or, you could just have told us, rather than let someone figure it out intuitively given that there is a GPS locator coupled to Apps.

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Anyway, here is a selected snapshot from my life over about 3 months earlier this academic year.
Boringly predictable, even if you were to zoom in on the local street level data and discover our favourite restaurants.

Wait!
The kids!
They can hack this, and find out what we really do when the babysitter comes...
NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!
Curse you Jobs!

No. Really. We go shopping for bathroom tiles.
At Lowes.
Honest.

PS: you can get your own iPhoneTracker App Source and Discussion at Pete Warden's GitHub.

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