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| geroin |
| i was at a friends house last night and he told me that when he returned from Cuba a few days ago at canadian customs in the airport he was held for 3 hours for no reason whatsoever, he was told that he matched a description of someone, which is bull, they ripped apart all his belongings and searched through everything and then they spent about an hour looking through his cellphone including txts emails etc. At one point they claimed they would have to keep his phone as evidence and then mail it to him a month later if nothing is found. He then mentioned that hes not going to say anything to customs until cops arrive, they called the cops but eventually they let him go. Such a bizarre ing incident, my friend is not a druggy or anything like that and has a decent job etc etc |
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| E2EK1EL |
Gruber: iOS location storing is a bug, getting fixed in future iOS update
Commenting on Andy Inhatko’s article on iOS storing user’s location data, Daring Fireball‘s John Gruber reveals that iOS storing user’s location information is in fact a bug. The bug comes down to a consolidated.db being in place. This file is supposed to store a user’s recent location information to work with iOS and iOS applications, but, due to a bug, does not delete older location information.
I don’t have a definitive answer, but my little-birdie-informed understanding is that consolidated.db acts as a cache for location data, and that historical data should be getting culled but isn’t, either due to a bug or, more likely, an oversight. I.e. someone wrote the code to cache location data but never wrote code to cull non-recent entries from the cache, so that a database that’s meant to serve as a cache of your recent location data is instead a persistent log of your location history.
Gruber “wagers” that the bug will be fixed in a future release of iOS, and we tend to agree with him. We’re unsure as to why Apple is yet to comment on this issue. If you are worried about your privacy and want to block this bug, a free jailbreak utility has been released to do so.
(yeah right it was a "bug"!) |
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| rulzz |
| this thread is just another reason to never buy smartphone :cool: |
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| geroin |
| quote: | Originally posted by rulzz
this thread is just another reason to never buy smartphone :cool: |
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| jad |
| Thanks for the info. I'll keep this in mind when I cross the border. |
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| chinamon |
| quote: | Originally posted by geroin
i was at a friends house last night and he told me that when he returned from Cuba a few days ago at canadian customs in the airport he was held for 3 hours for no reason whatsoever, he was told that he matched a description of someone, which is bull, they ripped apart all his belongings and searched through everything and then they spent about an hour looking through his cellphone including txts emails etc. At one point they claimed they would have to keep his phone as evidence and then mail it to him a month later if nothing is found. He then mentioned that hes not going to say anything to customs until cops arrive, they called the cops but eventually they let him go. Such a bizarre ing incident, my friend is not a druggy or anything like that and has a decent job etc etc |
but how do you know if he really didnt look like someone they were looking for? there is a possibility that it might be true. |
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| chinamon |
| quote: | Originally posted by Jayx1
its one thing to do this with foreigners trying to enter a country. But when your own citizen is attempting to return to his country and is on it's soil this is outrageous and wrong. Want to search the car for drugs? fine. But looking at my speech and private thoughts to determine whether i committed a crime without my consent? If thats not a police state what is? |
so a citizen of that particular country should be exempt from any form of search because there is no chance he could be a terrorist or whatever?
i think if you are already in the country and you get stopped by local cops then they dont have a right to treat you like that but if you leave the country and are returning then they have a right to do whatever is in their power. afterall, nobody knows what you left the country for. |
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| rulzz |
| quote: | Originally posted by chinamon
so a citizen of that particular country should be exempt from any form of search because there is no chance he could be a terrorist or whatever?
i think if you are already in the country and you get stopped by local cops then they dont have a right to treat you like that but if you leave the country and are returning then they have a right to do whatever is in their power. afterall, nobody knows what you left the country for. |
if i'm following this logic correctly people should just sit at home and don't leave country because upon returning one can be abused and questioned without reason ?
OH NOEEESS everybody can be a terrorist !!!! mandatory cavity search and 12 hour detention and questioning for everyone coming into country coming soon .. courtesy of chinamon
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| chinamon |
| quote: | Originally posted by rulzz
mandatory cavity search |
now we're talking!! |
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| rulzz |
| quote: | Originally posted by geroin
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i'm waiting for hipsters to pick that trend up ... :toocool:
actually if i remember correctly some manufacturer actually did a tribute run of cell phones with that casing |
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| geroin |
| quote: | Originally posted by chinamon
but how do you know if he really didnt look like someone they were looking for? there is a possibility that it might be true. |
that's understandable but why the hell do you have to look through someones phone and try to confiscate it for a month, maybe the guy needs his ing phone information for work or whatever. |
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| PivotTechno |
| quote: | Originally posted by chinamon
so a citizen of that particular country should be exempt from any form of search because there is no chance he could be a terrorist or whatever?
i think if you are already in the country and you get stopped by local cops then they dont have a right to treat you like that but if you leave the country and are returning then they have a right to do whatever is in their power. afterall, nobody knows what you left the country for. |
Yeah, but Jay's like, 80, and senile, so he kind of thinks funny about this sort of thing. |
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