[LINK] Carrier IQ

[Richard Chirgwin]

Scott,

If it were innocent, then why did Carrier IQ:

1. Issue and then withdraw legal threats?
2. State that it could not capture real time data when it can? (the "not 
real time" position was maintained right up until the video was posted, 
showing real-time capture.

If the data logging were innocent, why did we also see a rush of 
carriers in Australia and New Zealand saying "we don't touch this stuff"?

Finally, if it were innocent, why is it difficult to find?

I'll return to my original assertion: some damn fools got carried away 
by their cleverness. Just like when Google thought "hang on, we could 
get our StreetView cars to slup data from open WiFi hotspots!" That kind 
of brain never considers whether something that looks really cool is 
also a very, very bad idea.

RC


On 2/12/11 5:46 PM, Scott Howard wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 7:13 PM, Ivan Trundle<ivan at itrundle.com>  wrote:
>
>> So where's the outrage, the indignation, the calls for retribution?
>>
> Ho hum...
>
> http://allthingsd.com/20111201/carrier-iq-speaks-our-software-monitors-service-messages-ignores-other-data/
>
> Sure, they would say that, but what does the video really show?  That if
> you put your phone into debug mode, Carrier IQ logs sends stuff to the
> debug log.  That's it.  It doesn't show that it's actually logging that
> information.  It certainly doesn't show that it transfers it off the phone,
> or makes it available in any way.
>
> Move along folks. Nothing happening here.
>
>    Scott
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