Greg’s Bite: Mobile Device Insecurity
By Greg Mills
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Tag: privacy
Greg’s Bite: Carrier IQ info
Posted by Greg Mills
I contacted Apple Media Relations Thursday morning requesting comment on the Carrier IQ privacy issue on Apple products and got a phone call back with an official statement from Apple, at 4:30 Central time. This is Apple’s Official Statement on Carrier IQ:
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UPDATED Carrier IQ, RIM, Nokia and Android Keystroke Root Kit
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iPhone Based Police ID Verification App
Posted by Greg Mills
The convergence of cell phones, computers and the internet have been fertile ground for all manor of good things. “There is an app for that” has been something nice to hear. Long ago, Apple figured out that killer apps are what drives device sales.
It seems like threats to privacy are increasing exponentially lately. Now when a cop wants to check your identification he calls in your driver’s license number and someone on the other end of the radio looks you up on a police computer system. Soon they radio back anything he might need to know.
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Greg’s Bite: Law Enforcement Warrants for FaceBook Profiles
Posted by Greg Mills
FaceBook has secretly been providing complete files on its users to law enforcement. Most of the time the FaceBook users never know their information was given to the police. The policy decision to advise users or not of the warrant is for FaceBook to decide. FaceBook prepared a manual for warrant proceedures they appear to have reproduced for law enforcement. See http://cryptome.org/isp-spy/facebook-spy.pdf
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