BEWARE: Carrier IQ records what you do on your mobile phone

[Bladewire]

Carrier IQ

AT&T , Sprint & TMobile are known to have this software embedded.


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[marlboroack]

Yes, and i have even found undercover ware house offices with about 80 employees sifting though illegal keywords such as "Weed, Murder, Scam etc" in each text message that get's sent. Nothing surprises me anymore, all related to the same thing for some reason. I don't think it would effect a single person user.. They have other clients and business partners you know.

[candyflip]

Been running custom ROMs for the past few months that have all had CiQ removed.

[Shoplifter]

This is going to be a huge shitstorm:

http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/...roof-20111129/

[bronco67]

So I need to cancel that dropoff of 123 pounds of weed that was coming tomorrow?

[blackmonsters]

This is going to be a huge shitstorm:

http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/...roof-20111129/

No it will not be a shit storm.

Some important looking dude will say something about terrorism and safety and all the sheep
will get back in line just like the idiots that they are.

[Bladewire]

This is going to be a huge shitstorm:

http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/...roof-20111129/

Nice! Looks like this shit is getting real!

[seeandsee]

yeah for usage and tracking, why they read my texts and record what i type it fuckers, pay it now!

[Bladewire]

It's amazing that the Carrier IQ people are now acting surprised at what the software they created is doing. Pathetic

Carrier IQ: 'We're as surprised as you'

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- The company behind the now-notorious Carrier IQ software that has been found to log every keystroke pressed, website visited and text message sent by 150 million mobile phone users said Friday it was shocked to learn that its software was doing that.
"We're as surprised as anybody to see all that information flowing," Andrew Coward, Carrier IQ's director of marketing, told CNNMoney in an interview. "It raises a lot of questions for the industry -- and not [only] for Carrier IQ."

The "flowing" information Coward was referring to was spotlighted Monday in a 17-minute YouTube video posted by Android developer Travis Eckhart. The video showed Carrier IQ recording everything Eckhart entered into his phone, storing the data in what's known as a debug log.

The purpose of a debug log is for software developers to see if anything is going wrong with an application. It stashes that information in the phone's memory, which it remains stored until the device is powered down.

It's unusual, however -- and bad, security experts say -- for an application to store so much data to the debug logger.

"It's not considered a good security practice to insert any sensitive information in a log like that," said Dan Rosenberg, a consultant at Virtual Security Research.

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[ErectMedia]

great now others know I'm a loser with no life as well