Geolocation Spoofing

When Facebook Places was announced, everyone other than me was all like “OMG privacy, stalkers, what are we going to do?” My first thought, of course, was, “Okay, how can I spoof this thing so I can check in from Buckingham Palace, having tea with the Queen?”

Once I figured out how to do that, my next thought was, “There should be an app for that.” So I made one. Tall Tales is my new iPad app that lets you choose your location on a Google Map, then go to any website that uses the W3C Geolocation API and have your chosen location reported instead of your actual location. Need an alibi? There's an app for that!

It works on Facebook Places, Twitter, and any other website using the new W3C geolocation standard. At the moment it's only for the iPad; I thought Apple was going to reject the app (for being abusive of social networking services), so I didn't want to put in the extra work to make it run on the iPhone and iPod Touch. Now that it's been approved, I'll be adding iPhone/iPod compatibility soon.

Tall Tales is available on the App Store for only 99¢ (or the equivalent in your local currency).