Don't forget similar problems with other handheld devices: http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/07/17/2138213/Amazon-Pulls-Purchased-E-Book-Copies-of-1984-and-Animal-Farm
Tom Yates wrote: > i haven't seen any mention of this on here yet, and it came from the > latest SANS newsbytes (v11 n56). it gave me a grin to think of yet > another thing i don't have to worry about as an openmoko user, because my > GSM device is entirely under my control, and i can inspect the source for > everything i run, if i want to. > > > > --Blackberry Update Found to Contain Spyware > (July 14, 2009) > A United Arab Emirates service provider pushed out a BlackBerry update > that contains spyware capable of intercepting users email and text > messages and sending them back to the server. The > performance-enhancement patch was sent as a WAP Push message to 100,000 > users. Its spyware capabilities were discovered only after one user took > a closer look at the update because it appeared to be draining the > devices battery. The battery was being drained because the application > was trying to register with a central server that became overwhelmed > with the traffic, so the devices repeatedly tried to make contact. > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/14/blackberry_snooping/ > http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/07/blackberry-spies/ > > > _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
