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iOS cache_encryptedA.db contains unencrypted geo-locations harvested by apps

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iOS 6 - which is because this is a 3GS.

Welcome to 2012!

http://www.binaryintel.com/iphone-forensics-location-informa...

Nice screenshots, though?

Your device has to be jailbroken to access it. This file doesn't show up in device backups.

Now - tried jailbreaking an iOS 7 device and seeing if it was still there? That might actually grab some headlines.

(Though, that might be a little hard for anyone who's decided to PIN / password lock their phone - since your phone has to be unlocked now to approve pairing to an unknown device ....)

well thank you, you won a reference in the blogpost

We're in 2014 and a second hand 3GS still costs more than many of the cheaper newly manufactured Android phones. I'm pretty sure plenty of people are still using them.

IOS = Cisco Internetnetwork Operating System

iOS = Apple's mobile operating system

As someone who works/worked with both it always irritates me when they're spelled 'wrong'.

yet another thing learned!

What about wii IOS?

The first word of the title gets auto-capitalized no matter what you put inside, so you have to go and manually edit it to "iOS" afterwards. That's why you frequently see "IOS" and "IPhone" at the beginning of the title if the links are recent and no mod has edited it yet.

but I do have to admit I spelled it as "IOS" :)

Since we're playing that game, it's "Internetwork" OS, not "Internetnetwork".

Ooops, honest typo :)

Isn't this just part of assisted GPS? iOS caches the locations of recently seen wireless access points to speed up location services.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_GPS

Yes

Reminiscent of the consolidated.db debacle:

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/apr/20/iphone-tra...

As I said: i didn't think this was something new. It was however not foreseen that this particular app would be harvesting my location, hence the surprise.

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