A security researcher has identified a rootkit present on smartphones manufactured for two of the biggest US carriers. Both Verizon and Sprint are selling phones which come preinstalled with CarrierIQ, which is intended to be used for analyzing network and connection problems.
However, as Trevor Eckhart points out, it can be used for much more than that. More importantly, its very existence ... [ read the full article ]
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I'm getting tired of the mix-matching of verbality in hopes of setting a new trend because their parents didn't buy them the latest fashions as kids...
Metrics is a form of measurement, NOT the keys on a cell phone; like inches & the now dead cubits. So stop trying to impress us with some new shit & get on to scaring us with the new propaganda! 'Input/information to the cellular device' should/would have been a better barometer for what Eckhart is trying to warn us about.
Is this CarrieIQ originally for the good of the company & the betterment of mankind? I'm sure it is/was, just like dynamite; but just as all roads paved to hell, they originally had good intentions.
alot of cell carriers are starting to SPY on the end user. i would have to call that INVASION OF PRIVACY. its none of your damn business what i do with my phone, were I am, or anything else. yet another good reason to ROOT your phone. make it more and more YOURS.
@jackson-vzw, your being ironic right ?? cus its not like apple where up until the point someone noticed recording you every movement, syncing it back using itunes to your desktop as well...
And its allll ok now as they only record it for the last 30 days..
lol
Also where did the sudden Samsung hate come from ?? there are many android manufactures, the new article doesn't point the finger at Samsung so why have you ???
