Lifehacker sharepod upgrade#
If I try 4.2.1 and don't like it can I restore to the 3.1.3 file I downloaded for safekeeping and be back at the 5.12 baseband? I'm not currently unlocked but when I upgrade to the iPhone 4 or 5 I may want that option for the 3G. Hi Rob, I have a jailbroken 3G running 3.1.3 with a baseband of 5.12.
Lifehacker sharepod android#
But if you plan on going somewhere you don’t want someone or anyone to know of – try this – leave your iPhone or Android phone or any cell phone at home. I don’t want to make this sound like a non-issue – privacy is a big issue. They just will not keep the data on your device as long and they will eventually encrypt that data. It will still gather location data (rounded off) of nearby cell towers and wifi hotspots.
Lifehacker sharepod software#
They also stated they will be updating their software to fix this issue. To Apples credit per their Press Release they did acknowledge this data should not have been gathered and kept for as long as it was and it should not have been so easy to access. And is actually not as bad as even Apple seems to have made it out to be. But it is not as bad as a certain Senator and many bloggers made it out to be. So yes this information on your computer and phone is not good. Same if you tell your boss you need off for a day to visit your sick mom in Dayton, Ohio but your location data shows you were in Las Vegas or worse the town or city of your biggest competitor. So if you are telling your significant other you are going to meet up with a buddy and go to the ball game and that is on the north side of town and your data shows you were on the south side of town (you know down near where the strip clubs are located) – they are going to know something was up (But they probably would have figured that out by the glitter on your shirt and the smell of cheap purfume or the ATM receipt from Spanky’s). The data will however show what cities and general areas you visit at a given time. And the chances that the rest of the Cell towers and Wifi hotspots are that perfectly spaced is Zero. I am 100% certain that there is not a Cell tower or Wifi hotspot in the middle of the Runway of Islip Airport. No – they don’t – Apple is actually rounding off to the grid pattern seen in the image – and not the precise location of Cell towers and wifi hotspots. That has lead people to post that Apple is keeping the precise location of wifi hotspots and one likely is in your house. Rather, it’s maintaining a database of Wi-Fi hotspots and cell towers around your current location” “The iPhone is not logging your location. It did not help that in Apples own Press Release Apple did not state that the data was rounded off. From this image there is no way to tell exactly where my house is – which is in the map above – but around a million other people live in that map area as well. The above image is a screen shot of data collected on my phone / computer. If the Senators people and others making claims like this had taken the time to look at the data in question they would have seen something like the following image: Same is true for figuring out where you work or where your kids go to school. db file on your laptop - which by the way as I said still will not give your exact address. Lets face facts there are much easier and faster ways for a bad guy to figure out your home address then going through location data in a. Same thing if they get a hold of your laptop. However if they get your phone and they go to your mail app and see who an email was sent to and then go to contacts and find that person - then they can figure out your address. Maybe the part of town - but definitely not your specific house (unless your house is the only one for miles). If a bad guy gets your data they will not - repeat NOT - be able to figure out where you live. Problem is if he or his staffers had looked at the file in question they would have realized that actually was not possible and definitely not an accurate statement. “Anyone who gains access to this single file could likely determine the location of a user's home, the business he frequents, the doctors he visits, the schools his children attends” Take Senator Al Franken with this quote when talking about the data file that has location information in it. You also had in this case US Senators smelling blood in the water and inserting themselves into the story and in some cases actually contributing to the mis-information out there. As with most stories like this fear and link bait ruled (rule) the day. One of the biggest news stories around the iPhone in a long time is the recent for lack of a better term – Location Gate fiasco.
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