Researcher’s Video Shows Secret Software on Millions of Phones Logging Everything | Wired.com
Manufacturers and carriers have been installing what is basically a rootkit on millions of Android, BlackBerry, and Nokia phones to record everything their users do, “ostensibly so carriers and phone manufacturers can do quality control.”
Wired has a video of the software in action, showing how it records a security researcher’s Google search for “hello world” despite using HTTPS (it’s recording keystrokes), as well as every phone number dialed. Numbers are uploaded to Carrier IQ, the company that created this rootkit for carriers and manufacturers, before the phone call is even placed.
Despicable.
More creepy invasion of privacy, and another reason I’m grateful for Apple for not going down this road.
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More creepy invasion...another reason I’m grateful...not...
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