Was the iPhone location logging put in by quiet law-enforcement / intelligence agency request?
You all have heard about the iPhone / iPad 3G forever location logging by now. The phone writes locations obtained from cell towers to an eternal database. The "feature" has been known to forensics experts for quite some time and is even published in the relevant book on iPhone forensics and incorporated into a number of forensic data extraction tools in common use by law enforcement and intelligence agencies. Since the first mentions of the problem that was already present in the previous OS version iOS 3 Apple has issued quite a few security and feature updates, none of them fixed the problem. Even more, in iOS 4, it was just moved to a different file name and structure. This does not sound like an innocent "bug" to me, but a intentional omission. Which often happens because someone in law enforcement or intelligence quietly asks the company (or even sometimes an individual programmer) to help them out. I will explain the logic why I think Apple followed such a quiet request below. (Remark: I have spent
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