{"id":2614,"date":"2011-11-30T15:42:08","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T15:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/?p=2614"},"modified":"2011-11-30T15:42:08","modified_gmt":"2011-11-30T15:42:08","slug":"hello-world-ahem-hello-carrier-iq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/?p=2614","title":{"rendered":"Hello World&#8230; Ahem, Hello Carrier IQ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How would you feel if your every location, keystroke, button push, SMS, URL and Web search you made on your mobile was monitored, read and stored by a piece of factory pre-installed software that automatically sends it to a company you&#8217;ve never heard of, plus this software cannot be switched off or removed? AKA a *rootkit<\/p>\n<p>You wouldn&#8217;t like it would you? Well, if you have a modern\u00a0Android, BlackBerry or Nokia phone, then that&#8217;s exactly what&#8217;s been happening from the first time you switched it on.<\/p>\n<p>And when I say every keystroke, I mean EVERY single keystroke! so yes every login and password you&#8217;ve made, even over HTTPS, has been recorded and is now stored by Carrier IQ<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t believe that&#8217;s possible, then check out this <a title=\"Secret Software Logging\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/threatlevel\/2011\/11\/secret-software-logging-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wired article<\/a>, plus the video below (although jump to 11 mins in for the good \/ scary stuff!)<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Carrier IQ Part #2\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T17XQI_AYNo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/androidsecuritytest.com\/features\/logs-and-services\/loggers\/carrieriq\/carrieriq-part2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Trevor Eckhart<\/a>&nbsp;original post. The root kit creator&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrieriq.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Carrier IQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>* \u201crootkit,\u201d a security term that refers to software installed at a low-level on a device, without a user\u2019s consent or knowledge, in order to secretly intercept the device\u2019s workings. Malware such as keyloggers and trojans are two examples.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UPDATE: there&#8217;s a Twitter hashtag for this now #CIQ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How would you feel if your every location, keystroke, button push, SMS, URL and Web search you made on your mobile was monitored, read and stored by a piece of factory pre-installed software that automatically sends it to a company you&#8217;ve never heard of, plus this software cannot be switched off or removed? AKA a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,26],"tags":[735,736,737,738,739,698,740,76,101],"class_list":["post-2614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drivel","category-tech-stuff","tag-ciq","tag-android","tag-blackberry","tag-carrier-iq","tag-id","tag-nokia","tag-rootkit","tag-security","tag-your-id-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}