VN Boards Archive

[VN Boards Archive]

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Popular boards may have as many as 250 pages archived at 50 topics per page, while others deemed of historical signifigance may be archived in their entirety.

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Topic: Carrier IQ

Ravynmagi Title: Moderator Posts: 29,978 Registered: Dec 23, '01 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 29,452 User ID: 572,278	Subject: Carrier IQ
	http://www.engadget.com/2011/12/01/carrier-iq-what-it-is-what-it-isnt-and-what-you-need-to/ Carrier IQ is a diagnostic tool some carriers and phone manufactures put on their phones to help diagnose problems the phone may be having. The carriers and manufactures can customize the tool to capture specific types of data and events. However someone has found out this tool is very powerful and is capable of capturing pretty much everything you do on the phone, keystrokes, messages, calls, and more. And not only can it capture all of this over the carriers 3G, it also monitors the wifi too. Sprint and a number of manufactures are known to use it, but more are unconfirmed and suspected as well. Verizon says they don't use it. AT&T and T-Mobile haven't seen mentioned yet. It's definitely got people stirred up. In normal conditions I don't think it's a concern. I doubt T-Mobile is tracking my every keystroke. But if such a powerful diagnostic tool were to become compromised by some piece of malware, that's definitely scary. -----signature----- (none)
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Ravynmagi Title: Moderator Posts: 29,978 Registered: Dec 23, '01 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 29,452 User ID: 572,278	Subject: Carrier IQ
	Apple is going to drop Carrier IQ from it's devices. They say most don't use it since iOS 5.0 and will be completely removed in the future. http://www.theverge.com/2011/12/1/2603719/apple-carrier-iq-support-dropped-from-most-products-with-ios-5 -----signature----- (none)
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jarom_td Posts: 4,571 Registered: Aug 8, '00 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 4,443 User ID: 38,737	Subject: Carrier IQ
	Ravynmagi posted: Apple is going to drop Carrier IQ from it's devices. They say most don't use it since iOS 5.0 and will be completely removed in the future. http://www.theverge.com/2011/12/1/2603719/apple-carrier-iq-support-dropped-from-most-products-with-ios-5 Translation: Apple will be dropping Carrier IQ and adding their own "diagnostic tool" so they can play big brother instead of the carriers. -----signature----- Thanks to iTunes, now you can get free TV shows for just 99 cents
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Lannai Posts: 2,526 Registered: Oct 7, '04 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 1,963 User ID: 973,906	Subject: Carrier IQ
	jarom_td posted: Ravynmagi posted: Apple is going to drop Carrier IQ from it's devices. They say most don't use it since iOS 5.0 and will be completely removed in the future. http://www.theverge.com/2011/12/1/2603719/apple-carrier-iq-support-dropped-from-most-products-with-ios-5 Translation: Apple will be dropping Carrier IQ and adding their own "diagnostic tool" so they can play big brother instead of the carriers. -----signature----- Lannai Fidenian
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