The URL is not encrypted when it travels over SSL (https), nether is anything on the request string. So, if you ever see something https://myfavoritebankingsite.com?username=sillyperson&password=1234 then you need to know that the username and password are sent in the 'clear'. Just to be clear, I mean unencrypted.

If the URL was encrypted then the packet would have to wander across the entire network hoping to find its destination.

Do you really think that the carrier doesn't already know that information? Your ISP does get that information; it has to route your packets using something other than magic fairy dust. They even use that information to shape their traffic and optimize their proxy servers.

So do those 3rd party SMS apps, email clients, dialers, etc. This is strange or unusual; it just got a lot of press.

err, Silk.....

Go to jail over what? Nobody has really proved anything. Driving a car is dangerous under any scenario; someone should go to jail over this!

Bottom line, knee jerk report about stuff showing up in the logcat; research done. I didn't see anyone listening on the wire to see what was actually being sent, how it was being sent or give Carrier IQ and the carriers a chance to explain. It was just people with pitchforks and torches.

Haha, this post reminds me of the commercial where the girl is talking about her parents and the internet; where she read an article, well part of an article......

Banks don't lend cash.......

You obviously don't have any credit cards. It does cost the consumer and the banks; most people have better things to do than spend time ironing out credit card problems caused by a bunch of snot nosed kids with their blankets around their necks pretending to be superheros. Also, really, calling people names? Do you think that adds to your credibility?

Anon is just a bunch of sheep being led around by their noses by either nation-states or organized crime. They are going to take it to the next step and turn all their 'followers' into Oliver Twist-like characters. Wake up children, you're being had.

That argument might hold a drop of water if he had actually read all the data he released. It would have meant he examined each piece, made an evaluation about whether he though it should be classified. Bottom line, he got caught in the Wikileaks propaganda engine.

I don't think you get to decide what is secret and what isn't secret or why it was classified to begin with. It is very easy to stand on the sidelines saying that; but if it was your butt on the line I would hope you would give it more than 33 words worth of consideration.

The other part of the puzzle is that you are only supposed to be using classified information that you need to use. I suspect he'll have a difficult time explaining why he was access that much classified information unless he had the specific intention of releasing it.

And he'll likely go to prison for it. Release secret information is a violation of the law; period. If that is what he was actually doing, which I strongly suspect he just though Wikileaks 'cool', then he made a significant sacrifice for his cause. More likely however, he got caught up in the propaganda that feeding the easily impressionable people. He took the cookies out of the cookie jar, gave them to Wikieleaks, and they said so-long; without as much as a thank you.

The he shouldn't have taken the oath. If he decided after he volunteered that the U.S. Government was the enemy, he should have take the appropriate measures to separate. And yes, there are ways for him to do that without going to prison.

Instead he decided to betray his country's trust and release secret information. He's fortunate that we don't tend to execute people these days for treason; he'll get to spend a great deal of time in prison. Hope he still believes that what he released, most of which we've already forgotten, was worth his freedom.

He release secret information. He knew the penalty for doing that and when he signed up he agreed to safe guard that information. He violated the law willingly and intentionally. Now he'll get the opportunity to do the time for the crime.