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iPhone So basically our iPhones spy on us?

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chris4sure801

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What the hell is up with /var/mobile/library/mail. Plus the snapshots and all the freaking logs and processes going on behind the scenes?!

The new JailBreak came out recently and I decided its time to upgrade the whole lineup. Before I restored to the new iOS and installed evasi0n I dug around a little and realized how badly infected and compromised the systems are.. just like everyone elses (especially if you don't change your root passswd right away!) I've been sloppy with repos and the iPhone5 is a year old plus+ so no problem lets install fresh software..

I did a fresh IPSW restore from iTunes and installeded evasi0n right afterwards. Following that I installed normal JB software like sbsettings, activator, mywi, winterboard, icon mover renamer, flux... you get the point normal stuff from BigBoss no Repos and following that nothing out of the ordinary so the system is not compromised.

Here is whats freaking me out. I decided to dig around a little take a look whats going on behind the scenes and I ran into /var/mobile/library/mail/Recents. WTF is this ****!? I'm on my iPad4 with NO EMAIL INSTALLED. Yet it has all 4+ of my emails in the logs with most of my recent contacts Inbox/Outbox all kindsa info from the emails!! Also the snapshots, the keylogs, contacts and calls? Whats going on around here.

How is this possible? My emails are not installed on here.
 
chris4sure801 said:
What the hell is up with /var/mobile/library/mail. Plus the snapshots and all the freaking logs and processes going on behind the scenes?!

The new JailBreak came out recently and I decided its time to upgrade the whole lineup. Before I restored to the new iOS and installed evasi0n I dug around a little and realized how badly infected and compromised the systems are.. just like everyone elses (especially if you don't change your root passswd right away!) I've been sloppy with repos and the iPhone5 is a year old plus+ so no problem lets install fresh software..

I did a fresh IPSW restore from iTunes and installeded evasi0n right afterwards. Following that I installed normal JB software like sbsettings, activator, mywi, winterboard, icon mover renamer, flux... you get the point normal stuff from BigBoss no Repos and following that nothing out of the ordinary so the system is not compromised.

Here is whats freaking me out. I decided to dig around a little take a look whats going on behind the scenes and I ran into /var/mobile/library/mail/Recents. WTF is this ****!? I'm on my iPad4 with NO EMAIL INSTALLED. Yet it has all 4+ of my emails in the logs with most of my recent contacts Inbox/Outbox all kindsa info from the emails!! Also the snapshots, the keylogs, contacts and calls? Whats going on around here.

How is this possible? My emails are not installed on here.
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i think this is already being done before the jailbreak, so don't think the jailbreak has anything to do with it

if you restored from a backup, that might be where all the cache/logs are coming from
 
Digging around I figured out iCloud dumps a huge log of my contacts & all my recent emails even though I haven't added an email :( they're linking up all my emails not just iCloud and making a detailed breakdown. I can't believe they have me dialed in so hard. Plus the bastards pretty much spy on all of our activity from what it looks like.
 
It's called iCloud and it's for you to not have to do things too hard.
Please either remove your tin foil hat or go w snowden or simply don't buy a smartphone.
 
And you're surprised by any of this?

Personally, I couldn't care less...but I'm a really average, boring person.
 
I personally don't really care since I don't really have anything to hide, if someone was to spy on me, they would probably commit suicide cause of how boring my life is...
 
I look at it this way, if the government enjoys all the porn emails my buddy sends me as much as I do, then good for them. My only complaint is the way icloud handles spam, if I mark something as spam 15 times, it probably means it spam, so quit putting it in my dang inbox!
 
chris4sure801 said:
Digging around I figured out iCloud dumps a huge log of my contacts & all my recent emails even though I haven't added an email :( they're linking up all my emails not just iCloud and making a detailed breakdown. I can't believe they have me dialed in so hard. Plus the bastards pretty much spy on all of our activity from what it looks like.
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Seriously?

If you logged into iCloud then yes it will sync your history to all devices associated with that ID. That's what it is meant to do, and that's why it does it.

The only reason anyone now has access to any of those logs/history, is because you jailbroke and knocked down the 'walled garden' Apple has set up. An unjailbroken device is pretty damned secure, and a jailbroken one still can be, if you at least change your root password.

But of course you knew all of this because you're a top secret kinda person, and do all you can to hide from the big eye in the sky. Right?

:rolleyes:

Here's a hint:

Stop using a mobile device, or any device for that matter, if your privacy is that paramount.
 
Wow, this is pretty interesting.

A telecommunications device which will send and receive email also happens to keep track of it? Fascinating.

Honestly though mate, what the hell did you expect? It's the internet. You should know by now that information doesn't get whisked away to some neutral area in a corner of the internet. It's either public for all to see or stored to be retrieved easily and conveniently - things do not disappear on the internet. This applies to just about anything you can do, not only your personal email.

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Binarymix said:
a jailbroken one still can be, if you at least change your root password.
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To be fair you only need to do this if you installed afc2add, otherwise your phone is secure remotely. afc2add destroys all local security, though
 
Breaking News: When you give Apple access to your information, they will have access to that information.
 
ross1998 said:
I personally don't really care since I don't really have anything to hide, if someone was to spy on me, they would probably commit suicide cause of how boring my life is...
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I suppose people are like you are why the NSA can commit, and continues to commit, myriad atrocities.
 
You can thank suicide bombers for this... the government uses that for an excuse to spy on everyone... though large companies...
 
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