[citation][nom]ta152h[/nom]The Senate will never let this continue. All illegal monitoring of American citizens is only to be done by the government. Of course, if these carriers are willing to share this data ...[/citation]
The government of our fine nation protecting our privacy? Been to an airline in the last decade? If not take a little stroll down to an airport after PAYING for your ticket.. you'll find out how much they value your privacy.
I doubt they'll do anything frankly, however the class action law suites are much more likely to yield results IMO.. If it is won as described above, it would nuke CarrierIQ out of existence and most likely dent the whole damned wireless industry if it spills over to carriers themselves and manufacturers.
I will say this however to the actual CarrierIQ program itself: I've not been able to spot it storing any of the clear text info past a reboot, nor have I been able to see it transmitting it, however whatever it IS transmitting is encrypted so I can't verify squat.
Even if it wasn't sending this info anywhere, the fact that it makes it SO easy for some one else to watch this info if their devices where compromised is scary. This does constitute a real security problem since I was able to replicate the guy on youtube's session and tell my buddy his full password for his bank account, what bank it was, their login URL and his Facebook login.
That said, it makes deploying a root kit real easy for some one who wants to infect phones to gain information.
Lets also not forget the marketing advantages to such information that they surely aren't selling for profit.. HAH
EPIC FAIL.
Makes me glad I've always wiped my android devices and put cyanogenmod on them square away..