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Posted Tuesday, December 6th, 2011 at 10:06 am by Paul Wilks 0 Comments
The latest 'scare' in a growing line of recent privacy outrages is the one involving Carrier IQ. Now, the problem of writing about Carrier IQ is that the semi-official line of the swelling Android Community seems to change every few hours. The original discovery published on 28th November 2011, by Systems Administrator Trevor Eckhart, alerted the world to Carrier IQ and what their analytical monitoring software actually does. The Android Community media went from writing pointedly worried "Who are they?" articles with links to Eckhart's YouTube video to a raft of "Is YOUR phone INFECTED?" pieces that initially seemed to offer very little and mean even less. This progressed extremely quickly to U.S. government, with Sen. Al Franken demanding an investigation and answers.Read Full Article
Posted Thursday, August 5th, 2010 at 8:35 am by Antonio Wells 0 Comments
We have the final verdict, Google has removed the suspension placed on Android wallpaper apps falsely accused of spyware and stealing sensitive user data. Last week VentureBeat incorrectly reported wallpaper Android apps stole sensitive user data from millions who downloaded the app and sent the information to a website in China based on research mobile security firm Lookout revealed at a Blackhat hackers conference. VentureBeat later went on to correct some of the information, by that time of correction it was too late as worldwide media inaccurately reported the facts.Read Full Article
Posted Friday, July 30th, 2010 at 8:27 am by Antonio Wells 28 Comments![Android Wallpaper Apps Falsely Accused of Spyware and Stealing Sensitive User Data [FUD]](http://cdn.androidtapp.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Android-Wallpaper-Apps-Falsely-Accused-of-Spyware-and-Stealing-Sensitive-User-Data-FUD.jpg)
Wow! A recent VentureBeat article put the blogosphere and smartphone industry on its heels when a reported score of wallpaper Android apps were accused of being malicious. The wallpaper apps created by "jackeey,wallpaper" and "IceskYsl@1sters!" are indeed the same developer under separate accounts, and accused of sending private sensitive user data to servers in China to a website www.imnet.us. The worse part about all of this is no one, I mean no one fact checked accurately. VentureBeat, The Wall Street Journal, CNET, Fast Company, Fortune, PC World, Computerworld, Gizmodo, AppleInsider, etc. the list goes on and on and everybody jumped the gun in reporting the issue. No one asked the developer about it nor really looked into the methods Lookout used in building it’s report called the App Genome Project.Read Full Article
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