Source: PC World The term security vulnerability make most people's hair stand on end, yet it was recently discovered in at least one case to be amusing.
Researchers have managed to change the data of the location system of the iPhone to fool the device and thus to tell the owner that he was in a place radically different from where he actually was.
For location purposes, the iPhone is not using a GPS chip. It uses a database maintained by the company Skyhook . The latter uses vehicles that pace up and down major cities and detect Wi-Fi networks and note their location. When seeking an iPhone's position, it will find Wi-Fi terminals around and interrogate the database to deduce its location.
Scientists have managed to send to the iPhone a false SSID (network name) boundary, making it seem it was else
