Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Users claim iPhone 'phones home' to Apple

Speculation that Apple Inc.'s iPhone is itself "phoning home" to the Cupertino, Calif. company with personal information, including which stocks users are tracking, is probably off base, a German security Web site said today. According to translations of an analysis posted by Heise Zeitschriften Verlag GmbH of Hannover, Germany, while the binaries of a pair of iPhone applications -- the weather and stock applets -- include strings that contain the characters "imei," it's unlikely that the phone's identifier is being sent to Apple... Computerworld

1 comment:

iPhone 5 said...

That makes iphone much cooler than any other unit. it's really great that iphone keeps on updating and upgrading its features.