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

[Fire$torm]

I saw this on my fav net-show Tekzilla (http://revision3.com/tekzilla/) today...

Carrier IQ software secretly installed on millions of mobile phones reports most everything a user does on a phone (Link (http://revision3.com/tekzilla/iphone-siri-tips/skyrim-fever-your-phone-has-a-rootkit-and-is-webos-dead-))

The report referenced in the video is here (Link (http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/11/secret-software-logging-video))

[coronicus]

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

[Al]

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

[Mike029]

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

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

[Beerdrinker]

I just bougth a HTC Explorer and installed this app.

Found nothing...PHEW...

[Fire$torm]

I just bougth a HTC Explorer and installed this app.

Found nothing...PHEW...

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

[John P. Myers]

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

[Fire$torm]

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

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.