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Carrier IQ doth protest too much; shouldst really quit the incriminating denials

Posted December 14, 2011 - 1:24 pm

Carrier IQ continues attempts to convince the public that making an app that monitors 100 million cell phones doesn't mean Carrier IQ monitors phones. And, if the FBI got Carrier IQ data about user activities, it came from a Carrier IQ customer, not Carrier IQ. OK? We cool now?
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Carrier IQ denies the obvious in spyware scandal, avoids blaming the real culprits

Posted December 13, 2011 - 12:21 pm

Carrier IQ issued report last night with further clarifications designed to get smartphone users to believe the top quality spyware it makes is not, in fact, spyware. It should concentrate on the real issue: not that spyware is made, but that carriers use it covertly on their customers.
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Weaselware is most exploitive, fastest-growing trend in software

Posted December 9, 2011 - 1:39 pm

The worst aspect of the no-privacy interweb is the presumption by developers that they're now allowed to add spyware to previously legitimate software, add backdoors they can use to check your PC or tag and track you like an endangered seal across the Internet.
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Microsoft to claim a right to rummage around in your Windows 8 hard drive

Posted December 9, 2011 - 12:59 pm

Microsoft is claiming the right to go into PCs of customers unannounced and fool around with apps downloaded from the upcoming Windows (app) Store in case it doesn't like what they're doing. Sounds like the digital equivalent of an involuntary strip search.
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Marketing for spyware-maker Carrier IQ contradicts its denial that it doesn't spy on users

Posted December 5, 2011 - 3:21 pm

Carrier IQ issued a statement saying its monitoring app can tell if a text was sent, but not what it said. Its marketing page says it can capture keystrokes and screen shots, just as a security researcher charged. Nokia and RIM still deny using it, despite evidence to the contrary.
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Security vendors help covert agencies spy on their own citizens: WikiLeaks

Posted December 2, 2011 - 12:26 pm

Intelligence agencies listen in on conversations, texts, tap location data, Internet postings, mostly to warehouse in the hope of finding something interesting, sometimes using 'inaccurate' location data from them for missiles that drop the caller as well as the call.
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It's Not Your &#%*@$ Computer!

Posted February 11, 2009 - 1:21 pm

If the company provides the computer, the company owns the computer and has the sole right to decide how the employee uses that computer and what software can be loaded. Locking down Windows-based systems stop a wide variety of security problems.
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Why no news is bad news -- at least when it comes to malware

Posted August 19, 2008 - 8:55 pm

Once upon a time, malware authors wrote code to infect thousands of machines for entertainment and intellectual stimulation. Today, it's all about the money, and the greatest threat may lie in the silence, making a far more dangerous landscape.
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