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Re:Secret app on millions of phones logs key taps by jff on Wednesday November 30, 2011 @12:40PM (#3295889)
You, uh... you can enter 10 GB of text on your phone per day? I think maybe if you recorded all of the touch events, you'd end up with many megabytes worth, but I doubt the average user will enter more than a few kilobytes worth of text in a day.
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Re:Secret app on millions of phones logs key taps by therec on Wednesday November 30, 2011 @12:57PM (#3295970)
I agree with you they will very easily record all the touch events. If you were typing 10 characters per second (which already seems like quite a lot) after 24h you will not even have a megabyte of information. Just over a megabyte if you encode the character in Unicode. ;-) This is without even take into account that this information can be heavily compressed for the transfert.
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Re:Secret app on millions of phones logs key taps by artursapek on Wednesday November 30, 2011 @12:48PM (#3295931)
That's a figure for all phones, not each phone. Read EwanToo's comment towards the top.
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Re:Secret app on millions of phones logs key taps by samstave on Wednesday November 30, 2011 @01:17PM (#3296072)
Text can be significantly compressed.
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Re:Secret app on millions of phones logs key taps by artursapek on Wednesday November 30, 2011 @01:49PM (#3296235)
Yes I know. Unless the app sorts out valuable information from noise (passwords, account numbers, etc), I think this conspiracy theory is invalid.
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Re:Secret app on millions of phones logs key taps by EwanToo on Wednesday November 30, 2011 @01:14PM (#3296055)
There's 144 million phones with it deployed, the figure is the total for them all.
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Re:Secret app on millions of phones logs key taps by jff on Wednesday November 30, 2011 @04:24PM (#3296967)
I read "that amount of data from each Android/Blackberry phone would be a lot more thn 10 GB a day." as "each device is generating over 10 GB a day." It makes more sense as a total, and really, 10 GB a day is NOTHING. In scientific computing, terabytes a day isn't too unusual, so it's certainly no big deal to store and process 10 GB a day.
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