[LINK] Carrier IQ

[kim holburn]

And :

Carrier IQ logs all keystrokes (whatever a keystroke is exactly on a
smart phone):

http://www.techdirt.com/blog/wireless/articles/20111201/02571816938/security-researcher-shows-that-despite-carrier-iqs-claims-to-contrary-carrieriq-records-keystrokes.shtml

Yes Apple has Carrier IQ installed on some phones:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/12/apple-carrier-iq-still-on-iphone-4-but-we-dont-read-your-e-mail-and-texts.ars


On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 8:34 AM, Fernando Cassia <fcassia at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 00:13, Ivan Trundle <ivan at itrundle.com> wrote:
>> Now that developer Trevor Eckhart has discovered logging software installed on most Android, Blackberry and Nokia phones, and with far-reaching implications of what that data can be used for, I had anticipated an outcry.
>
> My take is this is a government-sanctioned backdoor that NSA et al can
> use to hack "Persons of Interest" by the security and insecurity
> forces.
>
> Of course the legal front will be that only network operators have
> access to it, to collect totally anonymous (yeah, right) so-called
> "telemetry" data about what people use the phone for, how frequently
> you push what buttons, at what timeframes you send the most SMS
> messages etc etc
>
> It´s all for our own good. To catch the evildoers. We all want the
> evildoers behind bars (or a few feet below the ground), right?.
>
> FC
>
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