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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. How did the software get on an iDevice? by dotancohen · · Score: 1, Troll

    Aren't we told that Apple's walled garden would prevent non-sanctioned applications from running or even being installed? Does that mean that Apple is complicit in installing Carrier IQ?

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  2. Slashdot Anti Apple Bias by Robert+Gadling · · Score: 0, Troll

    Now that CarrierIQ is also found on the iPhone (albeit in a harmless version), this is now considered Slashdot news. As long as only Android was affected it was apparently not considered newsworthy.

  3. At the risk of incurring wrath from iFans... by __aavqan3009 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Apple is in fact circling the drain now. They`re playing "follow-the-leader" with features on their phones. Now that Mr.Jobs is gone Apple will slowly go the way it went the last time Mr.Jobs left. Except this time, no amount of coaxing will get Mr.Jobs back. Save this post. Date it. Refer back to it. I`m not kidding. Just wait.You`ll see.