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It is astonishing to me, that one of the best known IT security researchers has to rely on a flashing icon to determine if location services were used or not.
by augstein 7y ago
It is astonishing to me, that one of the best known IT security researchers has to rely on a flashing icon to determine if location services were used or not.
Apple could easily disable said icon in certain cases. This begs the question: Isn‘t there a more reliable way to determine if an iPhone uses location services and maybe even say for sure for what they are used?
- willstrafach 7y agoAbsolutely. You can reverse engineer components of iOS to find this out, and analyze outgoing network traffic as a quick way to see what data is going out to remote servers. The icon, in this case, was a helpful indicator allowing others to easily reproduce this test in minutes.