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Carrier IQ Responds To FBI Drama, EFF Wants More Information

Posted by Soulskill on from the it-was-the-one-armed-logging-software dept.

New submitter realized writes "Yesterday Carrier IQ released a report (PDF) which tries to answer some questions about how their system operates. Also, after reports of the FBI using Carrier IQ data, the company responded by saying, 'Carrier IQ has never provided any data to the FBI. If approached by a law enforcement agency, we would refer them to the network operators.' Additionally, the EFF just released a report which says they believe keystroke data 'is in fact being inadvertently transmitted to some third parties,' but they would like to study carrier profiles to verify information." Reader Trailrunner7 adds that Carrier IQ's report indicates "under some limited circumstances its software will log the contents of SMS messages sent to a user's phone, but that that the contents of those messages would not be human readable. Instead, they would be in an encoded form that could not be decoded without special software and the carriers don't have access to the contents of the messages either. The company said it has worked on a fix for the bug, which affected devices running the embedded version of the Carrier IQ agent."

6 of 140 comments (clear)

  1. Re:A Little Help Please? by VortexCortex · · Score: 3, Funny

    Install gentoo.

  2. Talking through hat/lying through teeth. by bmo · · Score: 3, Funny

    but that that the contents of those messages would not be human readable. Instead, they would be in an encoded form that could not be decoded without special software

    "We encoded it as ROT13, twice."

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    BMO

  3. Re:No secret decoder ring here! by VortexCortex · · Score: 3, Funny

    Actually, you're almost there. The most secure encryption is to simply XOR each byte with itself.

  4. Carriers don't have access? by ChipMonk · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Carriers don't have access to the contents of the [SMS] messages." Then how the hell do they get them to my phone in a human-readable format?

  5. Re:A Little Help Please? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    And by spyware riddled you mean perfectly clean, I suppose. Small typo.

  6. Re:"A fix for the bug"? by advocate_one · · Score: 4, Funny

    Corporations are not humans. They are companies.

    The supreme court (wrongly) disagrees with your statement.

    I'll believe in corporations having personhood when Texas executes one...

    --
    Donald 'Duck' Dunn: We had a band powerful enough to turn goat piss into gasoline.