Guys with Smartphones of Samsung, HTC, etc beware of the CARRIER IQ a program which can potentially keep a log of whatever you do on your phones even your password of debit cards.
Dan Rosenberg, security consultant says that, at least on his Samsung, Carrier IQ can't record keystrokes except for those used while dialing phone numbers. It can record GPS location and URLs, even secure ones, however. According to him, HTC should fix the debug logs shown by Eckhart, which are a major privacy risk too.
The conclusion: even without text logging, Carrier IQ is accessing some private information without warning the user and without any easy way to deactivate it. There are no excuses for this abuse. It's just wrong and needs to be fixed now.
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