{"id":37592,"date":"2011-12-01T03:02:44","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T03:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/busted-secret-app-on-millions-of-phones-logs-key\/"},"modified":"2011-12-01T03:02:44","modified_gmt":"2011-12-01T03:02:44","slug":"busted-secret-app-on-millions-of-phones-logs-key","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/busted-secret-app-on-millions-of-phones-logs-key\/","title":{"rendered":"BUSTED! Secret app on millions of phones logs key taps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2011\/11\/30\/smartphone_spying_app\/'>BUSTED! Secret app on millions of phones logs key taps<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wilwheaton.tumblr.com\/post\/13552316484\/busted-secret-app-on-millions-of-phones-logs-key-taps\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">wilwheaton<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/wilwheaton.tumblr.com\/post\/13552316484\">wilwheaton<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>An Android app developer has published what he says is conclusive proof that millions of smartphones are secretly monitoring the key presses, geographic locations, and received messages of its users.<\/p>\n<p>In a YouTube video posted on Monday, Trevor Eckhart showed how software from a Silicon Valley company known as Carrier IQ recorded in real time the keys he pressed into a stock EVO handset, which he had reset to factory settings just prior to the demonstration. Using a packet sniffer while his device was in airplane mode, he demonstrated how each numeric tap and every received text message is logged by the software.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Carrier IQ tried to threaten this guy with a bogus lawsuit when he revealed their nefarious activity, so he contacted EFF and told them to suck it. The company was forced to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2011\/11\/carrier-iq-drops-empty-legal-threat-apologizes-security-researcher\">back off<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So there are two morals to this story:<\/p>\n<p>1) Support EFF!<\/p>\n<p>2) I\u2019m really glad that I rooted my phone and installed a custom ROM (CM7).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BUSTED! Secret app on millions of phones logs key taps wilwheaton: wilwheaton: An Android app developer has published what he says is conclusive proof that millions of smartphones are secretly monitoring the key presses, geographic locations, and received messages of its users. In a YouTube video posted on Monday, Trevor Eckhart showed how software from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[1539],"class_list":["post-37592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","tag-emergent-digital-practices","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-9Mk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}