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by dixie_land 150 days ago
I find it interesting that iPhone doesn't do a sanity check of these WiFi/cell fingerprinting based results against the GPS receiver it actually has. I can understand how WiFi only device would not have such an option, but why not do it on iPhones if Apple is known to be against location spoofing?
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It does fall back to the GPS receiver if no internet and no cache but I suppose it's just more power efficient and not on anyone's minds that people would MITM for this purpose.