This seems related:
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9222290/Mobile_spyware_raises_ethical_legal_questions?taxonomyId=85&pageNumber=1

Dave

-----Original Message-----
From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2011 9:34 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: fyi...

Save it.

It'll be useful soon enough...

Heh

On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 21:28, Sam Cayze <[email protected]> wrote:
> But now what I am to do with this pitchfork?! :)
>
>
> On Dec 1, 2011 10:04 PM, "Kurt Buff" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Declan McCullagh <[email protected]>
>> To: [email protected]
>> Cc: Dave Farber <[email protected]>, ip <[email protected]>, 
>> [email protected], [email protected]
>> Sent: Thu, 01 Dec 2011 5:45 PM
>> Subject: Re: [IP] Carrier IQ May Have Violated Wiretap Law In 
>> Millions Of Cases
>>
>> On the other hand, Carrier IQ may *not* have violated wiretap law in 
>> millions of cases.
>>
>> Dan Rosenberg, who I've copied on this message, said that he has 
>> reverse-engineered Carrier IQ and found "no evidence that they are 
>> collecting anything more than what they've publicly claimed: 
>> anonymized metrics data." He found "no code in CarrierIQ that 
>> actually records keystrokes for data collection purposes." See:
>> http://pastebin.com/aiYNmYVz
>>
>> John Graham-Cumming also is unconvinced:
>> http://blog.jgc.org/2011/11/getting-little-tired-of-security.html
>> "If you watch the 'security researcher's' video you'll find that 
>> nowhere does he make the claim that content that the application sees 
>> is leaving the device... At no point does he enter a debugger and 
>> look inside the CarrierIQ application, and at no point does he run a 
>> network sniffer and look at what data is being transmitted to CarrierIQ."
>>
>> Sprint said today that "we do not and cannot look at the contents of 
>> messages, photos, videos, etc., using this tool," which is a pretty 
>> broad denial:
>> http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-57335110-281
>>
>> I hope that IPers remember the panic earlier this year when Samsung 
>> was falsely accused of installing key loggers on laptops. Network 
>> World, which ran the article, ended up deleting it and saying, in a 
>> lovely passive voice, that "an apology has been issued":
>> http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20049259-281.html
>>
>> If Carrier IQ is transmitting keystrokes or the contents of 
>> communications, I'll be the first to call them on it. But, as far as 
>> I know after watching the video, nobody has demonstrated that's what 
>> the software actually does.
>>
>> -Declan
>>
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