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Congrats my friend... May you have an awesome week and second chapter as well... Double T

Good to see ya Pho... Keep taking care of yourself... TT

What I want to know is how the hell you pronounce it

Greetings Gpqpptdp... Welcome to our li'l community... Pull up a seat, pour yourself a cup of coffee, and start reading... There is a wealth of knowledge here... Warm Regards, Double T

Executive privilege on forum placement South Park's take on Apple & SteveO... http://www.southpark...it#tab=featured

http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/382786/you-didnt-read-it#tab=featured

@G Congrats... Truly your being part of the family here has made this place much more like a home... Your wit, humor, charm, integrity, and passion are irreplaceable... Blessed to call you friend... M

Actually according to the article and a little further research that's not the case... The carrier keeps a log on all smart phones for "official" use... The iPhone is the only smart phone that stores this information locally on the unit itself and on the synching computer, for anyone who has access to either to view...

Posting this in GD for good exposure... As privacy is a great concern for many of our members... TT iPhone keeps record of everywhere you go Privacy fears raised as researchers reveal file on iPhone that stores location coordinates and timestamps of owner's movements Charles Arthur - guardian.co.uk, - Wednesday 20 April 2011 14.06 BST Apple's iPhone saves every detail of your movements to a file on the device. Photograph: Linda Nylind for the Guardian Security researchers have discovered that Apple's iPhone keeps track of where you go – and saves every detail of it to a secret file on the device which is then copied to the owner's computer when the two are synchronised. The file contains the latitude and longitude of the phone's recorded coordinates along with a timestamp, meaning that anyone who stole the phone or the computer could discover details about the owner's movements using a simple program. For some phones, there could be almost a year's worth of data stored, as the recording of data seems to have started with Apple's iOS 4 update to the phone's operating system, released in June 2010. "Apple has made it possible for almost anybody – a jealous spouse, a private detective – with access to your phone or computer to get detailed information about where you've been," said Pete Warden, one of the researchers. Only the iPhone records the user's location in this way, say Warden and Alasdair Allan, the data scientists who discovered the file and are presenting their findings at the Where 2.0 conference in San Francisco on Wednesday. "Alasdair has looked for similar tracking code in [Google's] Android phones and couldn't find any," said Warden. "We haven't come across any instances of other phone manufacturers doing this." Simon Davies, director of the pressure group Privacy International, said: "This is a worrying discovery. Location is one of the most sensitive elements in anyone's life – just think where people go in the evening. The existence of that data creates a real threat to privacy. The absence of notice to users or any control option can only stem from an ignorance about privacy at the design stage." Warden and Allan point out that the file is moved onto new devices when an old one is replaced: "Apple might have new features in mind that require a history of your location, but that's our specualtion. The fact that [the file] is transferred across [to a new iPhone or iPad] when you migrate is evidence that the data-gathering isn't accidental." But they said it does not seem to be transmitted to Apple itself. Map shows location data collected from an iPhone that had been used in the southwest of England Although mobile networks already record phones' locations, it is only available to the police and other recognised organisations following a court order under the Regulation of Investigatory Power Act. Standard phones do not record location data. MPs in 2009 criticised the search engine giant Google for its "Latitude" system, which allowed people to enable their mobile to give out details of their location to trusted contacts. At the time MPs said that Latitude "could substantially endanger user privacy", but Google pointed out that users had to specifically choose to make their data available. The iPhone system, by contrast, appears to record the data whether or not the user agrees. Apple declined to comment on why the file is created or whether it can be disabled. Warden and Allan have set up a web page which answers questions about the file, and created a simple downloadable application to let Apple users check for themselves what location data the phone is retaining. The Guardian has confirmed that 3G-enabled devices including the iPad also retain the data and copy it to the owner's computer. If someone were to steal an iPhone and "jailbreak" it, giving them direct access to the files it contains, they could extract the location database directly. Alternatively, anyone with direct access to a user's computer could run the application and see a visualisation of their movements. Encrypting data on the computer is one way to protect against it, though that still leaves the file on the phone. Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at the security company Sophos, said: "If the data isn't required for anything, then it shouldn't store the location. And it doesn't need to keep an archive on your machine of where you've been." He suggested that Apple might be hoping that it would yield data for future mobile advertising targeted by location, although he added: "I tend to subscribe to cockup rather than conspiracy on things like this – I don't think Apple is really trying to monitor where users are." The data inside the file containing the location and time information. This is used to plot the map above. The location file came to light when Warden and Allan were looking for a source of mobile data. "We'd been discussing doing a visualisation of mobile data, and while Alasdair was researching into what was available, he discovered this file. At first we weren't sure how much data was there, but after we dug further and visualised the extracted data, it became clear that there was a scary amount of detail on our movements," Warden said. The pair of data scientists have collaborated on a number of data visualisations, including a map of radiation levels in Japan for The Guardian. They are developing a Data Science Toolkit for dealing with location data. Davies said that the discovery of the file indicated that Apple had failed to take users' privacy seriously.

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Same as always W... As Dave said, doesn't [and hasn't] showed for Platinum members...

Try removing your signature and posting...

Here's what the edit window looks like... Not sure what the USO files are... The icons are animated...

Due to Bill's well established history within these walls and his most generous spirit, this post was moved from another thread and given it's own thread in GD... Thank you Bill... Double T

You're fine Bill... And your history with the forum/community is well established... Truly appreciate the donation... I am going to move your post to GD though for maximum exposure ;-) Thanks, Double T

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PSPS: Moved topic to GD... Tis worthy to be here...

LMAO... Really... TT PS: Good to see ya J... I was just o'er in your neck of the woods...

Moved to appropriate sub-forum...

I will be myself...

Heading south on Monday morning... Will take the 5 for 90% of the drive... Would love to stop along the way for meals and fellowship with members of the community... Shoot me a PM Double T

Breitling Hercules for me today...