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AT&T, Sprint, Samsung, HTC respond to Senator's Carrier IQ request

AT&T, Sprint, Samsung, HTC respond to Senator
  • Posted December 20, 2011, 9:30 AM by Lee Kaelin | Filed in IT Security
  • Several handset manufacturers and wireless carriers have responded to a request from Senator Al Franken for more information regarding the use of Carrier IQ's software. Turns out, the software is installed on an estimated 30 million handsets of American consumers.…

Carrier IQ explains its software as FBI denies FOIA request

Carrier IQ explains its software as FBI denies FOIA request
  • Posted December 14, 2011, 8:55 AM by Lee Kaelin | Filed in Mobile Computing
  • Carrier IQ is once again making headlines as the company continues to fight back at the negative publicity its carrier-diagnostic "utility" is receiving. For those that do not recall, at the end of November a security researcher by the name…

Full update and round-up of Carrier IQ tracking software scandal

Full update and round-up of Carrier IQ tracking software scandal
  • Posted December 2, 2011, 8:41 AM by Lee Kaelin | Filed in IT Security, The Web
  • On Wednesday, news broke about a hidden application installed on most popular smartphone handsets that logs nearly everything the user does. Accompanying the news article was a 17-minute long video of developer Trevor Eckhart demonstrating how his HTC Evo 3D was tracking his key presses and even the content of his text messages.

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