{"id":1873,"date":"2009-05-26T21:06:34","date_gmt":"2009-05-27T01:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/?p=1873"},"modified":"2009-05-26T21:06:34","modified_gmt":"2009-05-27T01:06:34","slug":"big-brother-and-the-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2009\/05\/26\/big-brother-and-the-iphone\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Brother and the iPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eidac.de, the home of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eidac.de\/?p=134\">smcFanControl<\/a> (<em>essential<\/em> for keeping hot-running MacBook Pros at a reasonable tempoerature), has an interesting post. It&#8217;s actually two months old, but some of us are slow.<\/p>\n<p>He questions, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eidac.de\/?p=109\">Is Big Brother listening in on my iPhone Apps?<\/a>&#8221; after discovering a third-party tool for iPhone developers that will send information like the application&#8217;s time started\/stopped, UUID (globally-unique identifier for your phone), and the latitude\/longitude. Based on his analysis, nearly a third of the applications he&#8217;s installed are making use of it.<\/p>\n<p>An interesting debate started in the comments section, though, ranging from the application being dubbed spyware to a comparison with Google Analytics. I buy both arguments, really. But mostly, it&#8217;s yet another reminder that the iPhone is a black box unless you jailbreak it: you can&#8217;t even tell if this library is there without a jailbroken iPhone. Nor can you bulk-delete thousands of text messages. The temptation is growing.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eidac.de, the home of smcFanControl (essential for keeping hot-running MacBook Pros at a reasonable tempoerature), has an interesting post. It&#8217;s actually two months old, but some of us are slow. He questions, &#8220;Is Big Brother listening in on my iPhone &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2009\/05\/26\/big-brother-and-the-iphone\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}