We have already reported about exactly how the iphone or iPad running on iOS 4.x has been secretly tracking all your moves. security researchers have exposed that iphone tracks user’s place as well as stores it in a trick hidden data which is duplicated to the computer when it’s synchronized with the device.
The data contains data about your latitude as well as longitude together with the timestamp. This info can be quickly accessed by jailbreaking the phone, unfortunately, on the computer even without that. Moreover, the data is not encrypted as well as can be checked out by just anyone utilizing a simple app.
Now thanks to a new Cydia app called Untrackerd, you can quickly prevent your jailbroken iphone from tracking down all the bits as well as saving it to a secretly hidden database file.
Continuously clean up locationd’s history data in the background.
This bundle installs a daemon (process that can run in the background) to clean the consolidated.db file
Available for free on Cydia under BigBoss repository, just browse for Untrackerd on Cydia as well as set up it to prevent your iphone from tracking your location.
You will, of course, requirement to have a jailbroken iPhone, iPad or iPod touch to set up it. comply with our step by step guide published right here to jailbreak your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch with Redsn0w on iOS 4.2.1 (or untethered with GreenPois0n RC5), or with Limera1n on iOS 4.1, or on iOS 4.3.1 with Redsn0w, PwnageTool 4.3 (untethered | tethered), or with Sn0wbreeze on Windows, or on iOS 4.3.2 with Redsn0w, PwnageTool 4.3 (tethered), or with Sn0wbreeze on Windows if you haven’t already.
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