Re: Carrier IQ: The Sony rootkit all over again

My understanding is that this has been on phones for years. Including
the old feature phones. Maybe not this particular package, but
similar. So the only alarming part is that no one read their contract
that allows this.

Now agreed, they should allow you to opt-out and tell you about it,
but that is big companies for you.

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Mike Wills
http://mikewills.me

Sent from my mobile phone

On Dec 7, 2011, at 5:23 PM, Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

It's new to me!

And in conjunction with this, not something to make me warm and fuzzy.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2070988/Twitter-project-Library-Congress-archive-EVERY-tweet-made.html

Yeah, this is old news, too, but it's now getting IMPLEMENTED.
Orwellian to the extreme.

Joe

Old news and not as serious as when it first came out. It has been proven
by several researchers that the initial story isn't as severe as thought.
They do collect some stuff, but they don't log any keystrokes or texts. The
data collected is mostly used by the networks for troubleshooting and
network service quality checking. Carrier IQ is only a tool and the data is
sent to your network provider.

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Mike Wills
http://mikewills.me


On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 2:06 PM, sjl<sjl_abc@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

http://www.infoworld.com/t/cringely/carrier-iq-spying-your-cellphone-180425

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