full-disclosure - Re: Carrier IQ for your phone

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Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2011 11:20:39 -0800
From: coderman <coderman@...il.com>
To: "Alan J. Wylie" <shyyqvfpybfher@...ie.me.uk>
Cc: "full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk" <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Carrier IQ for your phone

On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 4:14 AM, Alan J. Wylie
<shyyqvfpybfher@...ie.me.uk> wrote:
>...
> | 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.. But except
> | in rare circumstances, that data is dumped out of a phone's internal
> | memory almost as quickly as it goes in.

one thing many of these stories seem to miss is that
these limits assume a carrier in control and acting responsibly.

if you're under a MitM attack these "not used" features sitting latent
are now actively acting against your interests.

similar to CALEA capabilities leveraged for clandestine surveillance,
 e.g. the Athens Affair...

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