Wired interview with the CEO of Carrier IQ

[thewayne]

The CEO's last name is Coward, not that I would comment on irony. A lot of interesting stuff, and a lot of nasty implications. Two things I found to be of particular interest. First, he says that it's installed on over 150 million phones, and some of them are outside of the United States. Which means that there's a strong likelihood that some of those phones are in the EU. Which means they are subject to EU privacy laws. I expect some very interesting news stories on this next week, and it might not be a bad move to sell short their stock, assuming it's openly traded.

The other thing is that he says his servers are encrypted. I also expect some stories from Anonymous and LulzSec attesting to their encryption, or lack thereof.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/12/carrier-iq-data-vacuum/all/1

I should look in on Bruce Schneier's blog and see what his thoughts are.

Comments

[silveradept]

I note that the company is not saying "Our software has been perverted by your carriers", which would be better than "Yeah, we helped them turn these into rootkits.", which seems to be what actually happened. And the flippant response at the end betrays the fact that either they or the carriers have already done something unethical by installing rootkit software on consumer devices.