[-0MEGA-];1458787 said:
I personally believe you are being too paranoid about this tlarkin. Sure it's on Verizon's network, but what about when you use public WiFi hotspots, or even your internet at home? The ISP is in the middle and could see what you were doing as well. Also, I could care less if Verizon knew that I was going to my parents for dinner next Wednesday, now if I had extremely sensitive data I would be more concerned.
I jailbroke my iPhone and it was much less stable, but I couldn't stand reverting back to the factory OS. My phone crashed several times per week.
I use best practices, so no I am not afraid of using my cell phone or public wifi, but what I am afraid of, is someone I know not using best practices. There have already been documented cases of people following other people on twitter to see their location, and when they noticed they were out of town, they robbed the other people.
I can't possibly know every person any of my friends associate with. I have a core of close friends and I know what they do, but the friends I just see out and about or grab a beer with, I don't know all their other friends.
Let me give you an example of how I don't like certain things. I've been to a few house parties where girls bring cameras and I have had my pic taken, and something "not so legal," was being done in the background. Then I get tagged on social networking sites with this pic, where I am not doing anything illegal or amoral in the pick, but the background things are probably not appropriate for certain things. Then it hits google and google associates my name with my website, my linked in profile, and so forth. You think potential future employers don't check you out on Google, social networking, and professional networking like Linked IN? They do, and even though you can set your privacy to the max, that doesn't stop someone else from sharing it and tagging your name to it.
I don't fear it, but I think there are people that don't really respect your privacy, and that feeling extends to the corporations and the people that run those corporations. Schmidt already admitted he would give up any info google had on anyone to authorities. Doesn't that violate the 4th amendment?
Then you have the bored employees of said communication companies. You don't think they dip into private conversations? There are plenty of documented cases that have gone to court over this. So, you may not care if someone reads your text message to your parents, but I do. Do I care that they know I text my parents, or what I said? Nope, not really, I just don't like the fact that they can, and in some cases some people do.
It is like the first time you work on someone else's computer and they have a folder labeled "porn," you are curious enough you take a quick look at what is in there. I used to work with guys who loved looking at people's personal data on their computers. I don't do that crap, but I know it happens.
**Edit**
All jailbreaking does, is that it takes the full image of the iPhone, the factory image, and wraps it up and modifies a few certain things to load the Cydia package manager on the phone. Then once that is installed, Cydia can install "non approved" Apple apps. I ued iPwn or something like that, never really had any problems people reported, but I never ran alpha or beta releases of apps on my phone, and I read all the read me files. Maybe that is the difference, I dunno...