[qrohlf]

While it's not particularly surprising that the location of a piece of radio hardware that broadcasts a static identifier is trackable, it is pretty interesting how the location awareness and ubiquity of modern smartphones are effectively creating a massive distributed sensing network. The focus on this piece is mostly on how apple (by designing their api in a way that avoids apple computing your exact location on their servers, presumably in an attempt to _preserve_ user privacy) inadvertently gave public access to that sensing network. I'd love to read a piece that also games out what exactly a red team or attacker could do with _privileged_ access. I.e. "if somebody was able to compromise the location services servers, but not iOS, what exactly would they be able to do with that"...

[gruez]

> "if somebody was able to compromise the location services servers, but not iOS, what exactly would they be able to do with that"...

Aren't the locations on apple's servers end-to-end encrypted? I'm not sure what you'd be able to do with that.

[tmaly]

Not to sound cliche, but the modern cell phone beats anything they could have imagined in Orwell's 1984