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Carrier IQ Software May Be in iOS, Too

Posted by timothy on from the y'know-to-be-fair dept.

New submitter Howard Beale writes with this excerpt from The Verge: "To date, the user tracking controversy surrounding Carrier IQ has focused primarily on Android, but today details are surfacing that the company also may have hooks into Apple's iOS. Well-known iPhone hacker Chpwn tweeted today that versions at least as recent as iPhone OS 3.1.3 contained references to Carrier IQ and later confirmed it's in all versions of iOS, including iOS 5." The details are still emerging; however, iPhone users will be happy to hear that while it's reported that the software is available to the OS, "the good news is that it does not appear to actually send any information so long as a setting called DiagnosticsAllowed is set to off, which is the default."

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  1. Angry Birds by LoverOfJoy · · Score: 4, Funny

    In other news, hackers have discovered that the game, Angry Birds, mysteriously turns on a setting called "DiagnosticsAllowed".

  2. Re:Android by Bill+Dimm · · Score: 3, Funny

    Neither does Windows 7 (source.)

    Wow, Windows Phone 7 is so insignificant that they wouldn't even port Carrier IQ to it? ;-)

  3. Re:Why would Apple need something like this... by Assmasher · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hint - Apple doesn't let carriers put things on its phones...

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  4. Re:Handset Or Carrier? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    (Posting anon because I don't know what laws/contracts I am potentially breaking...)

    I hope you're not posting from a mobile phone. ;)

  5. Re:Why does this CarrierIQ stuff matter anyway? by ColdWetDog · · Score: 4, Funny

    Think about it. CarrierIQ is a front for the NSA.

    I hope you didn't post that from your cell phone.

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