It seems that this whole thing with logging the activity of iPhone users was unknown only to the general public because certain researchers and even police officers knew about it. A newspaper from San Jose USA a publicat an article in which he quotes an American investigator who claims to have used in his investigations data from iOS files that contained the locations visited by the user. The experts knew about these files, they knew where they were located, they knew what they were doing, but they failed to inform the general public.
"I've analyzed so many iPhones I've lost track," said Christopher Vance, a digital forensics specialist at Marshall University's Forensics Science Center, which works with law enforcement officials investigating crimes in its home state of West Virginia. Using the iPhone's tracking file "is part of the standard analysis for me," he added.
The fact that some police officers were checking the terminals is nothing, because in the USA, searching for the consolidated.db file in iPhone terminals has become a standard practice. Apple will have a lot of headaches because of this consolidated.db file and I think that in the near future we will have iOS 4.3.3 or iOS 4.4. This issue has become the subject of CNN news and Apple cannot risk prolonging the scandal for a long time.
