James "Jimmy" Blake is the Manager of Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Security's Security Intelligence & Operations Consulting (SOC) Practice in EMEA.  HP's SIOC Practice helps enterprise customers build and maintain effective Security Operation Centres.

Prior to joining HP, Jimmy was Chief Information Security Officer for the UK's largest Software-as-a-Service vendor.  There he helped protect the data of millions of subscriber's across three continents in a dozen data centres.  Jimmy has over two decades Information Security and Business Continuity Management experience gained both in consultancy and working for leading security vendors.

Jimmy is a GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH) Certified Information Security Systems Professional (CISSP), a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), a Certified ISO 27001 Lead Auditor, a Certified Ethical Hacker for EC Council (C|EH) and holds a Certificate in Cloud Computing Security Knowledge (CCSK) from the Cloud Security Alliance.  Jimmy is also one one of the co-founders of the Security B-Sides London conference.

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iPhoneTracker: Visualise iPhone Geolocation Data

DateSunday, April 24, 2011 at 8:43AM

There have been several stories in the tech and mainstream press over the past couple of weeks about the fact that the iPhone and iPad records historical geolocation data.  

I initially put down the story to the usual hysteria of the press and their Schadenfreude desire to pursue any story that reflects the iPhone in a bad light.  Then I came across the iPhoneTracker application from Peter Warden and Alasdair Allan.  This application takes a copy of the raw geolocation data file, which is backed up to your Mac the first time you sync every day and then plots the locations within the given timeframe on an Open Street Maps map.

Here is my resulting map - note the large blobs in Belgium and the Netherlands ;)

I'm pleased to say that I seem to have covered more of the UK that a lot of journos, but seeing my movements for the past year plotted out is actually quite scary.

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