You are right about https. However in the original post says: "under some limited circumstances its software will log the contents of SMS messages sent to a user's phone, but that that the contents of those messages would not be human readable. Instead, they would be in an encoded form that could not be decoded without special software and the carriers don't have access to the contents of the messages either." which is totally false. Carriers has access to content of SMS as they are delivered in polain text through their network. So this citation shows that Carrier IQ has no clue how GSM network work or they have something more to hide and do those silly attempts to calm down people with lies.