Your Android Phone Is Secretly Recording Everything You Do

[musclestang89]

I dont care what they see on my phone. always figured something like this was going on. If they can put it to good use then im all for it.

[stevo]

All cellphones do this.

Mine doesn't.

Stevo

[Sean88gt]

I'm pretty close to finding a StarTAC.

[ram57ta]

I'm pretty close to finding a StarTAC.

It still tracks your location from pinging the cell towers.

[90GT50]

Mine doesn't.

Stevo

If you have one, it does.

[ram57ta]

betcha if I pull the battery off my phone it won't transmit that shit.

[jw33]

That's why I just have all my passwords for everything as: 12345. Easy to remember and fast to type in.

[Tx Redneck]

All they're gonna get from me is I like porn

Not since you're on a different ROM.

I'm just glad Apple would never do something like that. They wouldn't use a third-party, at least...

Nah, they just hard code it into the OS.

All cellphones do this.

Correct

If you have one, it does.

Ding ding ding ding! What do we have for him Johnny?


FWIW, this isn't a device or OS specific thing, this is a wireless carrier thing. I'm surprised it tool Endgadget so long to report on this, I've know for a couple of weeks via XDA.

The custom firmwares/roms, unless the chef didn't remove it(haxd stock), do not have this crap in them.

[90GT50]

betcha if I pull the battery off my phone it won't transmit that shit.

Do it then post the results via tapatalk.

[Tx Redneck]

Do it then post the results via tapatalk.

I loled.

[Sgt Beavis]

Oops, looks like there is a chance that this software is also on the iPhone. They are still trying to confirm it.

http://www.theverge.com/2011/11/30/2601875/carrier-iq-references-discovered-apple-ios-iphone

[90GT50]

That's why I just have all my passwords for everything as: 12345. Easy to remember and fast to type in.

HA!

I make people's default gmail passwords their phone number, because they'll forget everything else. :|

[90GT50]

Oops, looks like there is a chance that this software is also on the iPhone. They are still trying to confirm it.

http://www.theverge.com/2011/11/30/2...ple-ios-iphone

I didn't realize sarcasm was that hard to detect.

[ceyko]

I wonder if the govt would get upset if I tried to intercept their wireless transmissions from the pentagon and the whitehouse. Afterall, there is no guarantee of privacy.

Nearly every country out there is or is trying to do just that 24x7. Crypto

[Sgt Beavis]

So there is a bit more information about the Apple version of this. It only logs specific technical data but does not have access to communication or the UI. So, unlike the Android version, it doesn't see your SMS messages, passwords, or any other key logging.

It is that kind of logging that really bothers me because it is a huge security hole. Also, we still don't know what is being done with that log file. Is it being uploaded somewhere. Even if its not, you've gotta thinks someone is going to try to exploit this in the future.