Lucylastic
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WOndering if anyone has anything better to do research on about this situation???
http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2011/11/30/carrier-iq-the-rootkit-keylogger-on-most-us-smartphones/
Carrier IQ: The Rootkit Keylogger on Most US Smartphones
But not it appears on Apple‘s iPhones.
Carrier IQ is a piece of software which certain US cellphone networks (Sprint for example) load onto their contract phones before they are released to consumers. The basic stated idea is quite simple: if there are problems then the software generates logs which the network can then analyse to see what the problems are.
However, this seems to have the rather undesirable side effect of working as a keylogger for everything that the consumer does with the phone:
An Android app developer has published what he says is conclusive proof that millions of smartphones are secretly monitoring the key presses, geographic locations, and received messages of its users.
In a YouTube video posted on Monday, Trevor Eckhart showed how software from a Silicon Valley company known as Carrier IQ recorded in real time the keys he pressed into a stock EVO handset, which he had reset to factory settings just prior to the demonstration. Using a packet sniffer while his device was in airplane mode, he demonstrated how each numeric tap and every received text message is logged by the software.
There are several different ways of looking at this and the comments sections of the various places where the story has been repeated over the past few weeks contain their fair share of all of them.
One is that it’s simply a handy diagnostic tool and therefore so what? I think that’s a slightly difficult position to maintain given that what the software records and then transmits to the network makes it almost certainly illegal under EU data protection and privacy laws (please note, it’s only been seen on US phones so far and not on anything from Apple. But it has been seen on Nokias, Blackberries from RIM and various devices running Google‘s Android).
At the other end there are the security implications (not to say the damned impertinence) of a network having access to absolutely everything that you do with your smartphone. Absolutely everything, from search habits through website visits to the text of any messages.
The video is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T17XQI_AYNo&feature=player_embedded
I also read that they were going to sue the chap eckhart, but have since dropped it
ah here it is
http://www.extremetech.com/mobile/107337-carrier-iq-is-the-best-reason-yet-to-switch-to-iphone
It then issued a statement claiming that its software “Does not record your keystrokes” and “Does not inspect or report the content of your communications, such as the content of emails and SMS.”
Claptrap.
Eckhart has just published a 17-minute video illustrating how Carrier IQ’s software logs and reports data even when a phone is set for airplane mode or is only communicating via WiFi. The video is long because Eckhart steps through each stage of the process from bootup to web search. If you want to skip to the actual logging, it begins at 8:38. Web search logging is demonstrated at 13:45.
Apparently If you google "how to remove Carrier IQ" you can find solutions for certain phones
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