A developer specializing in Android, the Google operating system for mobile phones, revealed the existence of a program installed by American service providers for millions of phones, which records a wealth of information on the activity users and forwards them to the provider.
CarrierIQ, published by the company of the same name, recorded a very large amount of information, ranging from keystroke messages sent, through research conducted via the Internet browser. According CarrierIQ, this software is deployed on more than 140 million handsets, Android phones such as BlackBerry or Nokia phones. The software is presented as a tool that allows operators to compile statistics on the use of telephones, a priori it is not used by European operators.Click here!
For Trevor Eckhart, the developer well known in the Android community has revealed CarrierIQ, this software is a real intelligence service. After publishing a long article on his blog, the young man, aged 25, received a threatening letter from lawyers CarrierIQ. After receiving the support of several organizations, including the powerful Electronic Frontier Foundation, Mr. Eckhart received a letter of apology (pdf) from CarrierIQ.
In this letter, CarrierIQ says its software is used only to improve the functioning of the networks. Carrier IQ "does not record key presses, provides no layout tools, and inspects or disclose the contents of your communications, such as the content of e-mails or SMS," says the company . But on Tuesday a new video posted on his blog, Mr. Eckhart shows, supporting evidence, as well CarrierIQ stores the content of SMS messages. It also records data protected a priori, such as research on a web browser connected to "https", a secure connection mode.
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