Except that is not what this is. There is no back door and Apple is not taking any data. This is a data cache of the data YOU ask the phone to use for it to do its job as a smart phone.
Did you read the link at http://alexlevinson.wordpress.com/ ? This guy is a heavy duty SME.
Security researchers have found absolutely NO indication at all that this data is sent anywhere. NONE. It is a data cache is all it is.
Remeber the NSA sat up shop in AT&T’s basement or when the UAE wanted to ban Blackberries?
chadbag:
Except that is not what this is. There is no back door and Apple is not taking any data. This is a data cache of the data YOU ask the phone to use for it to do its job as a smart phone.
Did you read the link at http://alexlevinson.wordpress.com/ ? This guy is a heavy duty SME.
Security researchers have found absolutely NO indication at all that this data is sent anywhere. NONE. It is a data cache is all it is.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703983704576277101723453610.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTTopStories
d’oh
Which specifically says and confirms what Levinson says that there is no evidence this data is transferred to anyone.
The data being transmitted as mentioned in the article in the letter is different data used to better the connection / communication process.
I don’t know about Google and what they send from Android phones.
bp7178
April 22, 2011, 8:00pm
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Your ISP is doing way more tracking then your iPhone could ever hope to do.
This seems like one of the scare stories they throw on the news from time to time to keep old people living in fear of all things electronic.
