Does your cellphone have Carrier IQ's spyware?
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Re:Nokia N9 (Score:5, Informative)
'Sup Maemo buddy!
My N900's clean, and if it wasn't I could MAKE it clean because I have root access, only about 4 clicks on an out-of-the box device B-)
T-Mobile HTC G2 (Score:4, Informative)
A lot of T-Mobile phones have it, and so does a lot of HTC ones as well. But the G2 somehow doesn't.
Howto: remove ciq (Score:5, Informative)
...not anymore on my Galaxy Tab 7"
prerequisites:
root access
busybox installed
Here's how I did it
open shell /dev/block/stl9 /system /system/bin/iqmsd /system/lib/libiq_client.so /system/lib/libiq_service.so /dev/block/stl9 /system
# become root user
su -
mount -o remount,rw -t rfs
rm
rm
rm
mount -o remount,ro -t rfs
# leave root shell
exit
# leave shell
exit
Re:How can I tell? (Score:3, Informative)
If you have iOS 5 or earlier you might have it, but unless you deliberately turn on send diagnostic data it's disabled.
http://mashable.com/2011/12/02/iphone-diagnostic-data/ [mashable.com]
FTFY.
Re:You who voted 'no' (Score:5, Informative)
1: Use an app that detects the presence of CarrierIQ. [cnet.com]
2: Use a model that is confirmed not to have CarrierIQ on it. [theverge.com]
3: Root the phone (if necessary) wipe it and install a ROM that is known to be safe.
Re:Nokia N9 (Score:4, Informative)
For one it's not on any of the list of packages [nokia.com].
Also, there is wireshark available for N900, and plenty of interested developpers. It would have been easily spotted by now.
Finally, the N9 isn't even available in the US, so there's no incentive for Nokia to add it (most other countries have saner privacy laws).
Re:Is there a known list? What about old cellphone (Score:4, Informative)
It's based on the carrier + model not just the model. So a HTC Sensation on T-Mobile might have it but a HTC Sensation on Bell doesn't.