It appears the most serious allegations about Carrier IQ, the diagnostics software secretly installed and run with root access on a variety of smartphones, may be unfounded.
Carrier IQ comes pre-installed on a number of smartphones, most notably Sprint and AT&T branded Android smartphones, and is sold as a diagnostic tool to help carriers monitor problems with their mobile networks.
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Originally posted by jookycola: Spin, spin, spin, damage control, and more spin.
My sentiments exactly... I wouldn't call this "guns don't kill people, people kill people" scenario, but you certainly know a key logger is illegal... you can own a gun legally (dependent on your local, let's not start a snarky spittle contest folks). I would say the ONLY exception would be for law enforcement & cell phone carriers don't constitute that. Same as these idiots who call you on the phone demanding you pay for loans of credit debts. Are they a bank or the original debtor? NO!? So why are you giving them money? They're not a financial institution. As I used to tell my soldiers CYA.
I agree as well, if they aren't interested in the information why track it is my first question... Besides the key tracking, the stuff i found will monitor all sorts of information about you. There is no way I could accept anyone knowing half of the information they are tracking that I wouldn't consider as an invasion of privacy...
Quote:most notably Sprint and AT&T branded Android smartphones
Why was Android bolded? More importantly, why is is most notable for being on some Android phones when it is on EVERY iPhone?
Quote:While it is reasonable to take issue with Carrier IQ for what their software makes possible, the carriers need to be held responsible for their own choices.
"...claims that Carrier IQ has a keylogger or is capable of sending carriers the contents of SMS messages or webpages are completely false, at least for the Samsung phone he looked at."
So it doesn't key log ON THAT PHONE, but might on others.
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wow... one phone down... Probably one of about three companies that actively research & develop hardware solutions against this very thing. Not to mention the fact this is new technology (Carrier IQ is also new software) implemented over the last year, may be year & a half.
I can't immediately quote from where, but it has already been stated that older & less advanced phones are incapable of seeing the software; much less it is a fact that removing the software is already known to be a impossibility (at present attempts). So why wouldn't Carrier IQ also have a function to hide known illegal activity? It's called Carrier IQ Covering Their Asses (CYA).
