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Carrier IQ Software May Be in iOS, Too
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."
Do you represent Seattle? If so, I'll put it on my list of places to avoid.
why do people make frivolous useless posts like this, grow up.
Then stop feeding them and just ignore the post? You whinging about it only eggs them on.
Uhhhg... When did moderation start taking effect immediately? Maybe posting on my moderated comment will undo my horrific error.
Wow, that looks like a pretty well-hidden goatse. I have still yet to fall for one of those on /. but I know that it's only a matter of time...
To the haters: You can't win. If you mod me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine
'Whinging' is an entirely different word to 'whining', however they both mean the same thing. Perhaps one is more colloquial than the other, I don't know. Google "whinge vs whine" if you must.