Are you using an Android Phone?

[Conan5]

Carrier IQ rootkit??? You must be kidding me..
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/1 ... ing-video/

[Akonyl]

pretty interesting, however the video never demonstrates that it's sending the information somewhere other than your device or that it's stored for any period of time.

I mean sure, after Apple did a similar thing with their GPS tracking I wouldn't be surprised, but the biggest points of his video weren't even demonstrated.

[Conan5]

Links to the PDF versions:
http://cryptome.org/isp-spy/carrier-iq-spy1.pdf
http://cryptome.org/isp-spy/carrier-iq-spy2.pdf

And more goodies.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news ... d-apps.ars

But nothing's worse anymore. E-Parasites Act is gonna save our arse.

[Akonyl]

btw, this is also in iphones too apparently, so not just android

http://www.theverge.com/2011/11/30/2601 ... ios-iphone

[Conan5]

It seems Apple stopped supporting Carrier IQ.
http://allthingsd.com/20111201/apple-we ... ith-ios-5/

We stopped supporting Carrier IQ with iOS 5 in most of our products and will remove it completely in a future software update.

Meanwhile.....
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/12/01 ... arrier_iq/

Carrier IQ representatives have maintained radio silence for more than a week now.

More drama..
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/ ... 4F20111202

Apparently, there's a Carrier IQ detector as well available in the android market.
https://market.android.com/details?id=c ... der&rdot=1