Aren’t there several other companies guilty of this practice? I thought I heard about several others.
Did they set Murdoch up?
He doesnt seem like the kind of guy who would buy this rag if they were up to stuff like this.
Or did he just now know?
I find it highly unlikely that he bought this company and then ORDERED them to do all this stuff, which would be his fault.
More likely he bought it just because it was a 100 year old going concern... and then got blindsided by the libtard reporters who worked for it and were unhappy that he bought it.
I hope they like being out of work more.
From The Register – 11/30/11:
Secret app on millions of phones logs key taps.
An Android app developer published what he says is conclusive proof millions of smartphones are secretly monitoring the key presses, geographic locations, and received messages of its users. In a YouTube video posted November 28, the developer showed how software from a company known as Carrier IQ recorded in real time the keys he pressed into a stock EVO handset, which he reset to factory settings just prior to the demonstration.
Using a packet sniffer while his device was in airplane mode, he demonstrated how each numeric tap and every received text message is logged by the software. The developer then connected the device to a Wi-Fi network and pointed his browser at Google. Even though he denied the search company’s request that he share his physical location, the Carrier IQ software recorded it. The secret app then recorded the precise input of his search query, even though he typed it into a page that uses the SSL protocol to encrypt data sent between the device and the servers.
In an interview the week of November 21, Carrier IQ’s VP of marketing rejected claims the software posed a privacy threat because it never captured key presses. He said Carrier IQ was a diagnostic tool designed to give network carriers and device manufacturers detailed information about the causes of dropped calls and other performance issues. The app developer said he chose the HTC phone purely for demonstration purposes. Blackberrys, other Android-powered handsets, and smartphones from Nokia contain the same snooping software, he claims.
Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/30/smartphone_spying_app/