full-disclosure - Re: Carrier IQ for your phone

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Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2011 12:14:06 +0000
From: shyyqvfpybfher@...ie.me.uk (Alan J. Wylie)
To: "full-disclosure\@lists.grok.org.uk" <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Carrier IQ for your phone

"Kain, Rebecca (.)" <bkain1@...d.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/

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