It’s a good thing that the EFF has waded into the battle against Carrier IQ – the weaselly company that makes even Smeagle of LOTR fame seem upright and forthcoming.
You can catch up on carriergate here, or if you are averse to long passages of reading you can also look at a summary here: Schneier on Security… and then after all that you too can ponder on how relatively calm the people with the most to lose are being.
Update: watch vid of US Senator Al Franken quizzing an FBI pointy-haired about its use of CarrierIQ data. The answer is just… well, preciousssss. Vid after the jump: Continue reading
Another telling example of how the battle continues to rage between regular apps and… well, not-so-regular apps. The one-upmanship continues into the stratospheric realms of computing:
Quivering there in the shadows of an axed registry, lying low, this little app has to hide itself, feed itself, load itself, talk to its owners behind your back and pretend to be YOU whenever you visit the bank. The rest of the time it stealthily marks the passage of opportunity, with phone-home events from the heated insides of your ‘puter… 