iPhone and iPad track their users
Last week's news that the iPhone and iPad are secretly logging users' whereabouts wasn't news at all to a local forensics specialist, “dailymail.com” writes.
Christopher Vance, a digital forensics specialist at Marshall University on loan to the West Virginia State Police, said he discovered the devices' tracking database in August 2010.
Vance has spent the last two years as a mobile forensics specialist, pulling information from cell phones to use in criminal investigations.
He found the tracking information while checking out a new forensics program. He grabbed a cable and plugged in his new iPhone, curious to see what the program would find on his device. The software spotted a database file called "consolidated.db."
"I just sort of found it, didn't know what it was. At the time I didn't see any research as to what it was," he said.