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Kilika
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« on: December 01, 2011, 03:36:05 am »

Well, no surprise! They are just getting started with these gadgets.

http://news.yahoo.com/smartphone-spying-204933867.html


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Your Smartphone Is Spying on You

The Atlantic Wire
By Adam Clark Estes | The Atlantic Wire – 12 hrs ago

..An Android developer recently discovered a clandestine application called Carrier IQ built into most smartphones that doesn't just track your location; it secretly records your keystrokes, and there's nothing you can do about it. Is it time to put on a tinfoil hat? That depends on how you feel about privacy.

[Related: Facebook and Google Join Forces to Oppose Privacy Bill]

The reason for this invasive Android app seems reasonable enough at face value. Even though it's on most Android, BlackBerry and Nokia devices, most users would never know that Carrier IQ is running in the background, and that's sort of the point. Described on the company's website as software to gain "unprecedented insight into their customers' mobile experience," Carrier IQ is ostensibly supposed to help mobile carriers and device manufacturers gather data in order to improve their products.

Tons of applications do this, and you're probably used to those boxes that pops up on your screen and ask if you want to help the company by sending your data back to them. If you're concerned about your privacy, you just tap no and go about your merry computing way. As security-conscious Android developer Trevor Eckhart realized, however, Carrier IQ does not give you this option, and unless you were code-savvy and looking for it, you'd never know it was there. And based on how aggressive the company has been in trying to keep Eckhart quiet about his discovery, it seems like Carrier IQ doesn't want you to know it's there either.
 

[Related: Did Eric Schmidt Step Down Because He 'Screwed Up' on Social Media?]

Eckhart first raised a red flag about Carrier IQ about two weeks ago when he started investigating reports that a software update on the HTC EVO 3D included "user behavior logging" code. The code had worried some geek bloggers when it showed up a couple months ago, but HTC and Sprint insisted that it wasn't much different than normal error-logging software and certainly didn't gather granular data like "contents of messages, photos, videos, etc." Eckhart wrote an exhaustive blog post about his startling findings -- CarrierIQ collected lots data, including keystrokes, and there way for the user to opt out "without advanced knowledge" -- and CarrierIQ flipped out. The company sent Eckhart a cease-and-desist letter demanding that he keep his mouth shut and threatening legal action. But after the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) took a look at the case and determined that Eckhart was working within his First Amendment rights, it backed off but still denied that they recorded keystrokes.

[Related: Google's Ice Cream Sandwich Will Make Android All Better]

This week, Eckhart fired back with a 17-minute long video showing in painstaking detail how much data CarrierIQ collects, effectively undercutting the company's denial. It was even logging contents of text messages! Wired posted the video on Tuesday night and cemented its status "as one of nine reasons to wear a tinfoil hat." The magazine explains how CarrierIQ even undercuts other companies' security measures:

The video shows the software logging Eckhart’s online search of “hello world.” That’s despite Eckhart using the HTTPS version of Google which is supposed to hide searches from those who would want to spy by intercepting the traffic between a user and Google. … It’s not even clear what privacy policy covers this. Is it Carrier IQ’s, your carrier’s or your phone manufacturer’s? And, perhaps, most important, is sending your communications to Carrier IQ a violation of the federal government’s ban on wiretapping?

Oh, we're definitely in tinfoil hat territory now. CarrierIQ and the carriers have yet to respond to the latest claims -- we're doing our best to chase them down -- but if past smartphone tracking scandals are any precedent, they could end up answering to Congress.

Related: The First Signs of Mutiny in the Android Brigade


Like many things in life, there are a couple of different ways to think about smartphone tracking. One way approaches privacy from a forward-thinking, technology-trusting and, heck, even progressive perspective. GPS-equipped smartphones are incredibly powerful tools that enables mankind to do all kinds of amazing things, thanks to the perpetual stream of data from the Internet. However, that stream runs both ways, and sometimes, the folks that build and maintain the network sometimes need to monitor your data in order to improve the technology. Who wouldn't want better service?

[Related: The Great Facebook Privacy Disconnect ]

This brings us to the second approach. Tracking is creepy. In an Orwellian kind of way, it makes people nervous -- especially Americans -- that the government or the corporations or the system is closing in on them and stealing their freedom. Of course, not everybody feels so strongly about privacy, but as long as you can opt out, it's fine. Last week, Sen. Charles Schumer spoke out about a program at some malls in Virginia and Southern California that were anonymously tracking shoppers' movements by tracking their cell phone signals, and the only way to opt was by not going to the mall. Schumer did not approve. "Personal cell phones are just that -- personal," the New York senator said in a statement. "If retailers want to tap into your phone to see what your shopping patterns are, they can ask you for your permission to do so."

The CarrierIQ software is not dissimilar to the shopper tracking program. In fact, it's arguably worse since it follows you everywhere. In the age of social media, everybody is becoming increasingly aware of and often angry about the amount of private data companies are scooping up with or without their consent. This week, the Federal Trade Commission and Facebook came to an agreement that the social network must make all of their new programs opt-in so as not to break the law by violating users' privacy. Even Mark Zuckerberg admitted in a sincere-sounding blog post that his company had "made a bunch of mistakes" on the privacy front in the past. He went on to detail how "offering people control over the information they share online" was a top priority. This is Mark "Privacy is Over" Zuckerberg we're talking about here. With Facebook reportedly building its own mobile phone platform, wouldn't it be super ironic if people started defecting from the Android army and switching to the Facebook phone in the name of privacy?

Your move, Google.

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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-57333652-17/android-handsets-secretly-logging-keystrokes-sms-messages/?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=News-Security

http://www.carrieriq.com/

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/11/secret-software-logging-video/
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« Reply #1 on: December 01, 2011, 06:35:53 am »

your money is spying on you also.

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« Reply #2 on: December 06, 2011, 03:08:11 pm »

So from this we see they even have competing marks!  Roll Eyes
And take notice of the name of Verizon's reason for not wanting Google Wallet...

http://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/2011/12/06/verizon-asks-google-to-skip-google-wallet-app-on-galaxy-nexus/

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Verizon Asks Google to Skip Google Wallet App on Galaxy Nexus

Written By Jennifer Booton
Published December 06, 2011
FOXBusiness


Verizon Wireless has decided to not include Google’s (GOOG: 625.28, -0.37, -0.06%) new payments app, Google Wallet, on its latest smartphone Galaxy Nexus, according to The Wall Street Journal.

The app, which Google hopes will revolutionize the way people pay for items at stores while tapping the local-business advertising market, lets people make payments using their smartphone, redeem digital coupons and earn loyalty points with merchants.

The Journal reports that Verizon Wireless, a joint venture between Verizon Communication (VZ: 38.41, +0.36, +0.95%) and Vodafone (VOD: 27.42, +0.31, +1.14%), asked Google to not develop a Galaxy Nexus-compatible app.

However Verizon said in a statement Tuesday afternoon that the recent reports "are false."

"Verizon does not block applications," a Verizon spokesman said.

Google, which told Reuters it was asked by Verizon not to develop the app for the phone, did not immediately respond to a request for comment over why Verizon requested this, however the Journal reports that the top U.S. carrier has formed a joint venture called Isis with rival AT&T (T: 29.28, +0.13, +0.45%) and Deutsche Telekom AG’s T-Mobile USA that lets people make payments and redeem offers on their smartphones.

Isis, which would be in direct competition with Google Wallet, is slated to begin trials next year...(cont.)



Read more: http://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/2011/12/06/verizon-asks-google-to-skip-google-wallet-app-on-galaxy-nexus/#ixzz1fn61vP7B



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« Reply #3 on: February 27, 2012, 11:48:05 pm »

Hey guys, I have a question about the GPS stuff...

So if I understand this correctly, even though they advertise this like "everything's in your hands now b/c if you lose it or get it stolen, then the system will track it for you" is a BIG deception, b/c their MAIN intent is to TRACK YOU, and YOU ONLY?(or at least conditioning you to do so in the future)

So pretty much, avoid the iPhones, GPS tracking devices, etc?

I know I'm a tad bit behind on this(although I knew the basics), but I will admit I should have researched this much more indepth.

Also, what do you guys think of, let's say, you lose your phone, and ask your cell phone provider if they can MERELY find a cell phone tower to ping it at the nearest location? Although I would have no problems after losing it b/c my insurance would cover it, but just wondering if you would find the cell phone tower ping thing OK?
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« Reply #4 on: February 28, 2012, 02:55:22 am »

I don't see anything wrong with trying to locate a cellphone you lost. While it may be more edifying to not have one, and eventually be the case of not having one at all for Christians, I don't see any problems now looking for a lost phone.
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« Reply #5 on: February 28, 2012, 07:09:23 am »

I don't see anything wrong with trying to locate a cellphone you lost. While it may be more edifying to not have one, and eventually be the case of not having one at all for Christians, I don't see any problems now looking for a lost phone.

How come it's not edifying for a Christian to have a cell phone?
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« Reply #6 on: February 28, 2012, 02:11:18 pm »

I said, "it may be more edifying..."

If it's in your name, your account, that's not something we really need for starters, and it means you have an account with the world and with that comes all the worldly trappings, like the means to pay for the phone, to maintain the account, etc.

The more we distance ourselves from the wordly day-to-day things the world does, and walk in the spirit and not after the flesh, I think the better example we set for others that don't know better. But how far does that go? How much do we not do as the world does? I think that is something that each person has to resolve between them and the Lord.

"Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample." Philippians 3:17 (KJB)
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