iPhone Tracker application

As reported last week those scallywags at Apple are able to watch your every move with the secretive tracking code that is placed on the iPhone.  The true contents of the file called “consolidated.db” were discovered by two British software developers who were working on ways of visualising location data for websites.





As mentioned on the blog last week, the two developers were creating an App to utilise this ‘novel’ piece of coding. You can bag it now at their website http://petewarden.github.com/iPhoneTracker/ So  if you’re in doubt of the other half who is making ‘another trip to the shops’ at 9pm or just want to see a 2011 version of the marauders map, this is your chance.


As I have a reticence to using some of Apples products for hidden things such as this, I haven’t been able to use this method for shall we say, investigative purposes. And luckily nor do I need too. If you have access to the PC that has the iPhone backup files on it, you can still get your hands dirty without having to install anything. However, where there’s a will there’s a way and I know plenty of iPhone owners that no doubt will dive into suspicion land. Let me know what results you get and I will dig deeper too. Tracking is no new thing and its possible with all GPS / 3G / yoghurt cartons and string devices. Its the fact that the code is readily available and unsecured on the phone and PC.


Apple are going to get bitten by this as its ‘cheeky’ to say the very least. Yes we live in a world where personal and social data are redily availible but is this sort of jiggery pokery acceptable?  Here’s a final bit of data to really twist your noodle. Apple have sold over 22 million iPhones in quarter 3 and quarter 4 of 2010. They contain this bit of code and that doesn’t bring us into 2011! Now that is an astounding amount of movement they are recording. The big question is, for what purpose? Maybe there’s an app for that….