Secret app on millions of phones logs key taps

Re:Secret app on millions of phones logs key taps by roc on Wednesday November 30, 2011 @01:28PM (#3296117)

But simple zip on raw text is what? 3 or 4 to 1? Particularly when you're talking about urls. So now you're talking about at least a couple kbytes of raw data.

So logging all of everyone's texts is probably still out.

But easily logging their browsing patterns. Probably app installation and use. And certainly they retain the capability to log texts containing keywords without going too far outside that aggregate range of data. Or doing targeted logging of all of selected individuals usage.

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Re:Secret app on millions of phones logs key taps by roc on Thursday December 01, 2011 @11:26AM (#3300241)

I'd just like to point out that what I hypothesized above have been revealed to be actual features of the CarrierIQ software. So I'm not sure what the downvote is for, but it's not inaccuracy or undue cynicism.

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