Re: Carrier IQ for your phone

[coderman <coderman () gmail com>]

On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 4:14 AM, Alan J. Wylie
<shyyqvfpybfher () wylie 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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