Your Android Phone has a Secret Rootkit / Keylogger and collects everything

I saw this on my fav net-show Tekzilla today...

Carrier IQ software secretly installed on millions of mobile phones reports most everything a user does on a phone (Link)

The report referenced in the video is here (Link)

The cost of going high tech... Scares the s**t out of me but i can't live without it now :p

There's an app on the Android market called Voodoo carrier IQ that supposedly checks your phone for the key logger...though its not 100% accurate...Al

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Originally Posted by Al McAdams

There's an app on the Android market called Voodoo carrier IQ that supposedly checks your phone for the key logger...though its not 100% accurate...Al

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Now this should be a sticky. Everyone will need to know this. Unreal.

I just bougth a HTC Explorer and installed this app.

Found nothing...PHEW...

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Originally Posted by Beerdrinker

I just bougth a HTC Explorer and installed this app.

Found nothing...PHEW...

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That is good news. Guess they figured the bad PR wasn't worth it.

Sorry i didn't think to post this here: http://www.legitreviews.com/news/12781/

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Originally Posted by John P. Myers

Sorry i didn't think to post this here: http://www.legitreviews.com/news/12781/

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Ha, figures. Sounds like it is time for someone to develop a firewall app for smartphones so the user can block unwanted internet access on all the apps with spyware.