Re: Carrier IQ for your phone

[Georgi Guninski <guninski () guninski com>]

On Sat, Dec 03, 2011 at 12:14:06PM +0000, Alan J. Wylie wrote:
> "Kain, Rebecca (.)" <bkain1 () ford com> writes:
>
> > http://www.extremetech.com/computing/107427-carrier-iq-which-phones-are-infected-and-how-to-remove-it
> >
> > and Julian Assange weighs in:
> >
> > http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/julian-assange-to-iphone-blackberry-users-youre-screwed-2011121/
> >
> > It is interesting how many errors my Iphone has stored on it, now that I looked.  I'm amazed the thing makes calls 
> > at all.
> >
> > And congress is here to save us:
> >
> > http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2397105,00.asp
>
> Interesting response from Carrier IQ in a long article on The Register:
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/12/02/carrier_iq_interview/
>
> | Yes, Carrier IQ is a vast digital fishing net that sees geographic
> | locations and the contents of text messages and search queries
> | swimming inside the phones the software monitors, the company's VP of
> | marketing, Andrew Coward, said in an extensive interview. But except
> | in rare circumstances, that data is dumped out of a phone's internal
> | memory almost as quickly as it goes in. Only in cases of a phone crash
> | or a dropped call is information transferred to servers under the
> | control of the cellular carrier so engineers can troubleshoot
> | bottlenecks and other glitches on their networks.
>
> -- 
> Alan J. Wylie                                          http://www.wylie.me.uk/


looks like if a corporation does it, it is business.
if a non-incorporated entity does it, it is a crime.

-- 
j

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