SVreX
MegaDork
2/11/13 3:30 p.m.
I don't know squat about these things.
I didn't even know they could do Wifi internet searches...
OK, so the basic story is that my son apparently borrowed someone's IPod, and when it was returned several days later (after passing through a few people's hands), it had several search entries for "boobs".
Actually, I'm sort of glad he's got an interest in those things.... but I digress.
The problem is the owner of the IPod is the son of the preacher, and now there is this whole blame game going on.
Methinks the preacher's son may have gotten caught red handed, and is trying to blame someone else.
But here's my question...
The specific times of the searches would help clarify who was in possession of the unit when the searches were made. They are telling me the searches do not have any time or date stamps on them. Is this right? I thought pretty much every electronic entry we make into virtually any device can be time identified. Why would the device keep records of multiple searches for the same term without distinguishing one from another by time?
Part of me doesn't care one bit about this. If boys are interested in boobs, then praise God!
But, if my son (or someone else's) is lying to cover something up, I'd like to try to deal with it.
So, do IPods have time and/or date stamps on search terms?
Datsun1500 wrote:
Safari does not time stamp them, so no.
on the ipad version of safari the history, but not necessarily the search history, is saved and organized by date, it doesn't save the timestamps of the searches (upper right box), but i think it is in order of searches when it pops down.
mtn
PowerDork
2/11/13 4:00 p.m.
Do you trust your kid? Ask him, tell him he won't be in trouble [this time], and then relay it on the the Preacher.
Not that much different when kids were trying to sneak off with playboys before the time of the internet.
I think everyone involved should be glad it was just "boobs." 
SVreX wrote:
Part of me doesn't care one bit about this. If boys are interested in boobs, then praise God!
Amen brother.....Genesis 2:18
it would funnier if the GRM thread came up.....
http://grassrootsmotorsports.com/forum/off-topic-discussion/good-god-almighty/53637/page185/
Sing along now:
You know the one who would do a 'boob' search
Was the son of a preacher man!
The only one who'd need to hide a 'boob' search
Was that son of a preacher man!
Yes he was
He was
Ooooh, yes he was
Boys interested in boobs? It's a sign of the apocalypse!
I'm sure Google could identify exactly when the search was performed. The data will be out there. The problem would be convincing Google this was important enough information to dig out and release.
Huh? What? Did someone say "BOOBS!"? 
Beer Baron wrote:
Sing along now:
You know the one who would do a 'boob' search
Was the son of a preacher man!
The only one who'd need to hide a 'boob' search
Was that son of a preacher man!
Yes he was
He was
Ooooh, yes he was
Quarter in the GRM jukebox for you!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp4339EbVn8
On parks and rec the other night "the douche" had those on his plates.
BOOBS!!!
(I typed this reply on my iPod touch)
mtn
PowerDork
2/11/13 5:33 p.m.
I think that everyone should stop, take a minute, and do a search for "boobs". Or whatever it is that floats your boat.
JThw8
PowerDork
2/11/13 5:45 p.m.
The answer is yes there is a timestamp on safari history entries. Found this bit on extracting it on an apple form.
Safari does actually store the time of the visit, but for some reason, it isn't shown it in the History viewer of Safari itself.
It does require a little bit of work to extract it though.
Firstly, you need to convert the History.plist file into a plain text format, rather than the binary format it saved as by default.
In the terminal, enter the following text and then press return:
plutil -convert xml1 /Users/YourUsername/Library/Safari/History.plist
If all goes well, nothing will seem to happen and the cursor will just move to a new line, signalling the conversion was successful. Now open that History.plist file in TextEdit and find the sites you're interested in. Associated with each entry is a 9 digit code for the time.
To decipher that code to a human time, have a read of [this post|http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5781580].
Anyway, hope that helps you
