iMessage Preview Problems; leak your location by receiving a text message

> The updated iMessage loads the link preview and in essence clicks the link for you! That’s what irks us with this, the choice. OK we might not stop people clicking links anytime soon but Apple have taken this very choice away from us and facilitate the information leakage. The very act of receiving an SMS message can reveal your rough geographic location, your cellular operator, your current WiFi network.

Re: iMessage Preview Problems; leak your location by receiving a text message

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Post by throwanem » Mon, Oct 10, 2016, 3:32 PM UTC

jonknee wrote: post #6

tl;dr iMessage now previews links automatically > The updated iMessage loads the link preview and in essence clicks the link for you! That’s what irks us with this, the choice. OK we might not stop people clicking links anytime soon but Apple have taken this very choice away from us and facilitate the information leakage. The very act of receiving an SMS message can reveal your rough geographic location, your cellula…

It's an unusual and disappointing error on Apple's part. I wouldn't be surprised to see it corrected in the first iOS 10 update. (And this is why we never install the .0 version of anything, and counsel our friends and loved ones likewise.)

Re: iMessage Preview Problems; leak your location by receiving a text message

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Post by jxy » Mon, Oct 10, 2016, 3:33 PM UTC

   > Early 2016 we were the first company in the UK to offer
   > SMShing services. These SMS messages are like phishing
   > emails and contain a pretext alongside a link within the
   > message.  When a mark receives an SMS message and clicks the
   > link a host of details are available to us.

This kind of thing happens with email too. In Apple Mail you can disable the loading of external contents. Does anyone know in detail how the preview in iMessage work?