Carrier IQ: How To Find It, And How To Deal With It

By now, you've probably heard all about Carrier IQ, the mobile logging software that an intrepid researcher named Trevor Eckhart found lurking on a number smartphones from multiple manufacturers and carriers.According to Eckhart's research, Carrier IQ is capable of tracking what apps you're running to where your phone is to what buttons are being pressed -- it sounds scary, but Carrier IQ claims that collecting that information ultimately helps end-users.Carrier IQ maintains they summarize performance information to help improve the quality of a carrier's customer experiences, but what if you don't want anyone else to have access to the sort of fine-grained data that Carrier IQ is capable of accessing? Here's how you can figure out if your phone is affected, and how to go about fixing things if it is.]]>

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