The geeks shall inherit the earth.

Mark

I used that feature the other day. I couldn't remember where I put it after the pub.

You could have just asked asked, and we would have told you... it's on the floor, smashed!

Sorry, couldn't resist. Well, I could but chose not to.

And you all do have the pass key enabled. Hmm??

As I believe the yoof are saying these days, OMG. Quite why they felt that was a good move I'm not sure.

I'm also not sure why people would allow someone else to track them via their phone and happily accept that as a "feature". But hey....

Any mobile can be tracked, the ability to find your phone is linked to your own mobileme account so is fairly safe.
I mean, apple wouldn't do anything that wasn't in my interest, would they?

Bravissimo! Excellent stuff, well done fellow techno-nerds.

Walk into any shopping centre, and the chances are your phone is being tracked to see where you are going. This is a side of using a mobile phone that I don’t like:
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol ... 945496.ece

Yes, they can’t (yet) match the presence of a phone with YOU, but using mobile data to track you around a place will be more common as time passes. I do see at times invites on adverts to switch Bluetooth on so they can lob an advert at me.

At least MobileMe lets you track the phone to your advantage. It’s great - yesterday, it told me where my phone was within a 20 metre radius when I tried it. That puts it in a few houses where I live.

I know any phone can be tracked, but haven't Apple made it delightfully easy for just about anybody and then convinced everyone that it's a great feature to have. People are far to easily led in my view.

But hey, call me a paranoid privacy nut.

The phone companies have been selling is part of their corporate solutions for a couple of years or more. So if you've got a relatively modern "work" mobile phone your company has teh capability to track you , whether they do or not not is another matter of course.

Um, okay, you're a paranoid privacy nut.



No, they haven't made it "delightfully easy for just about anybody" to track an iPhone. They've made it delightfully easy for the owner of the phone, using their own MobileMe account, to track their own phone. Hardly black helicopter-type stuff.

Right. So because the technology is made availabe for the "owner" of the phone, you're telling me that it's not now easier for someone else to hack/access/whatever that mobileme account than it is for them to track the phone by the more usual law enforcement methods?

In theory, yes, but in theory anything is possible. In theory I could follow you down the street from your house and watch everything you do. If you really think anyone in the world has the slightest, tiniest bit of interest in hacking someone's MobileMe account just to follow around a circle on Google Maps to know where they might be then you really are a little on the paranoid side of the ledger.

Anything is possible, but why make it easier for people? I guess I can just see this as further stealth proliferation of tracking technology throughout society.