Ryan Petrich, a jailbreak-based app developer, has released a utility in Cydia named Untrackerd, which can wipe the cell phone tower-based tracking file that has recently been discovered.
The file can be accessed on any computer an iOS device has been backed up to, as long as the backup wasn’t encrypted. At this time, Apple has not commented on the purpose of such data.
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Stephen Hackett, formerly a Lead Mac Genius at Apple, now spends his days running the IT department of a large non-profit in Memphis, TN. He writes about Apple, design and journalism at forkbombr.net. Like all twenty-somethings, you can find him on Twitter. Oh, and he has a dogcow tattoo.
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April 21, 2011
Apple Inc., iPad, iPhone