Zibri's Blog

In the last few weeks I noticed a heavy battery drain on my Galaxy Note 3, which has always been perfect battery-wise. After further inspection I noticed that the phone stopped to go to "deep sleep" when it was connected to my home WiFi. I even banned my phone from my LAN, just to exclude any external cause. Nothing changed. I checked the wakelocks and didn't see anything "strange". After a few days of inspecting and testing, I found nothing. But that nothing, meant something: no application was to blame. Apparently it was the O.S. I didn't factory restore my phone, because I "sensed" that restoring the backups I may be facing the same problem again. Excluding the apps, and after checking all settings (and finding nothing was wrong) ,and thinking "out of the box" I came with a "stupid" theory: what if a bug or a glitch messed up some internal settings? What if one of my many tests launching "act...

Apple know's your Wifi SSID and where it's located. You may say, no news here because I authorized it in my iPhone. Yes, ok.. but did you authorize Apple to know MINE too? Ok.. you're confused.. I'll explain: every time you use google maps on your iPhone or any other application which uses the location service, you are sending Apple your GPS position along with  the Wifi mac adresses of the networks (access points) your phone sees. So, let's say, you didn't authorize Apple to know where you are but someone else has. Now picture that someone else passing by near your house. As soon as that someone uses the location service, Apple will know the position of your wifi access point. I wonder how this passed totally under the radar of "privacy aware" organizations. It won't be long till someone will exploit this and the pandora box will be opened. A proof: one of my access points mac addresses is in Apple database. I don't have a 3G or 3Gs iPhone...