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Reports are running like wild fire over the internet that iOS 4.x has a built in location tracker that tracks your location and saves the data “without your knowledge”. This is pretty weird as no one knows (except for Apple) why this feature is there.

For those who are uncomfortable with breach of privacy, Cydia is your savior. An app called Untrackerd, prevents the iDevice from being tracked by clearing out the secret database file that records this information. Since there is no information, there can be no database.

The iPod touch 2G has been somewhat unpopular, as it was difficult to jailbreak. However, this has now changed for good – the text below hits us via the iphone-dev-team:

The iPod Touch 2G is now another member of the “pwned for life” family. It has a fatal flaw in its bootrom that means you will always be able to pwn these devices no matter what firmware updates come along. This is the full, untethered jailbreak, something that iPod Touch 2G users have not had before today.

Those of you who hang out on IRC or were able to read between the lines in the various blogs, forums, wikis and twitters may realize that we — and importantly, that’s a that’s a collective, cross-team “we” — had been hoping to hold onto this full ipt2g jailbreak until the next version of the iPhone came out. That didn’t happen, but maybe it’s too late for Apple to fix the bootrom in the next iPhone.

The raw patch to the firmware that transforms the “tethered” jailbreak into an untethered one was released here but it’s not yet packaged up into the PwnageTool or QuickPwn flows. But other threads there are pulling together tutorials and other tips for those of you anxious to try this out now. For the curious, the hole itself is explained here. There’s also a “pen and paper” analysis that helped the hybrid team venture transform the hole into an exploit. Hopefully that will be up for viewing soon too, if only because of its geeky beauty

Anyway, to all those iPod Touch 2G users out there who waited so patiently through all the various incarnations of the jailbreak for Apple’s latest device — welcome to the family!

For the rest of us, the jailbreak “cat and mouse” game will continue in the summer with the next iPhone. And the carrier unlock “cat and mouse” game continues as ever.

As of now, no further information is available – stay tuned!