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AT&T Stops Using 'Super Cookies' To Track Cellphone Data
jriding (1076733) writes AT&T Mobility, the nation's second-largest cellular provider, says it's no longer attaching hidden Internet tracking codes to data transmitted from its users' smartphones. The practice made it nearly impossible to shield its subscribers' identities online.
Would be nice to hear something similar from Verizon.
You're forgetting, the last time those very same telcos engaged in mass law-breaking on the behalf of the NSA, they got blanket immunity as a reward. Those who didn't cooperate got contracts terminated and a 'coincidental' string of denials on the regulatory front.
It may be dirty and crooked but not stupid to go ahead and do the MITM attack secure in the knowledge that at the end of the day their customers will be forced to eat the losses and have nowhere else to go for their telecommunications if anything goes bad.
You only get spanked if you don't cut the NSA in on the haul. That is NOT paranoia, it's a summary of recent history.
Moreover, the only way they could even do it would be to install trusted certificates on the phones that they sell. How long do you suppose that would fly under the radar before being discovered? Do you really think Google or Apple would go along with it? Use some common sense man....
The telcos have considerable latitude with the extra crap they bundle onto the phones. Do you really think Apple would rather not sell iFruits in the U.S. than agree to allow a few mandatory extras from the telcos?