Re: Carrier IQ is NOT your friend!!
incredibleuser9

I get that Verizon is not installing it.  I'm wondering if HTC did?  Verizon says they are not using it that doesn't mean it is not on our phones. 

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Re: Carrier IQ is NOT your friend!!
Wildman
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I understand that no one wants all information stored on their device but there hasnt been any information that verifies that the information is transmitted and also the information that so many are reporting recently isnt any diffrent than the information that can be tracked through using the SDK for android...   At this time I think this is just another thing that users wants to get worked up over..  Another thing that the poster failed to post is that the data is purged regularly from the systems log...

 

Besides I can run any device with any OS and be able to retrieve the same information...  Its time to drop the panic alert with every post about a rootkey or keylogger when in programming the developer uses this data to troubleshoot a device so it isnt always a attack .

 

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Re: Carrier IQ is NOT your friend!!
AZSALUKI
Legend

incredibleuser9 wrote:

I get that Verizon is not installing it.  I'm wondering if HTC did?  Verizon says they are not using it that doesn't mean it is not on our phones. 


samsung and htc have stated that they put it on certain devices at the request of carriers. my guess is that it's not on any verizon devices. at&t and sprint have confirmed that they use it so samsung and htc likely only put it on the devices that go to at&t and sprint. 

 

maybe it's time for some of you to give kudos to verizon for being the only major US carrier to NOT request it on thier devices?

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Re: Carrier IQ is NOT your friend!!
OnlineTechDude
Enthusiast - Level 3

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-57335715-281/how-carrier-iq-was-wrongly-accused-of-keylogging/?tag...

 

We already know Verizon doesn't allow it on their phones, but it wouldn't matter as it doesn't do anything bad.  There is no keylogging, which is the main concern all the misinformed people that speak out about it are ignorantly stating.

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Re: Carrier IQ is NOT your friend!!
incredibleuser9

You know I don't really care if its not doing anything I still don't want that software on my phone period.  I would like to hear from Verizon and or HTC that the Incredible is carrier iq free. 

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Re: Carrier IQ is NOT your friend!!
gerio
Specialist - Level 2

incredibleuser9 wrote:

You know I don't really care if its not doing anything I still don't want that software on my phone period.  I would like to hear from Verizon and or HTC that the Incredible is carrier iq free. 


Sure. 

 

Good luck with that.

 

Geri O

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Re: Carrier IQ is NOT your friend!!
AZSALUKI
Legend

verizon said they don't use it and htc said they only put it on at the request of the carrier. what more do you want? at&t and sprint requests it....verizon does not.


incredibleuser9 wrote:

You know I don't really care if its not doing anything I still don't want that software on my phone period.  I would like to hear from Verizon and or HTC that the Incredible is carrier iq free. 





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Re: Carrier IQ is NOT your friend!!
Tidbits
Legend

Funny thing...  There's so many ways YOU can see if it is there or not...  All the evidence of being there is in plain site and there is a turorial to find it...

 

If you don't find it on the Incredible... Then it doesn't have it...

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Re: Carrier IQ is NOT your friend!!
incredibleuser9

Where is the tutorial?  I'm not a tech person, I'm a housewife.   Heck the only reason I have the fancy phone is because my grown kids insisted so they can get ahold of me.   So any help in where to look would be extremely helpful. 


Tidbits wrote:

Funny thing...  There's so many ways YOU can see if it is there or not...  All the evidence of being there is in plain site and there is a turorial to find it...

 

If you don't find it on the Incredible... Then it doesn't have it...


 

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Re: Carrier IQ is NOT your friend!!
Jax_Omen
Specialist - Level 3
Do you people really think that Carrier IQ is the only service that offers this kind of spyware? VzW has only stated that they do not use Carrier IQ. The fact is that they DON'T say "we don't use any kind of monitoring/spying/etc software". And guess what? VzW has to be running SOMETHING, because they have those "dial *** to notify of a dropped call" things that tech support has people do sometimes has to be able to report diagnostic information, which is what Carrier IQ ostensibly does.

So don't put too much stock in VzW saying "we don't use Carrier IQ". Same poop, different name. How quickly we forget... http://www22.verizon.com/about/privacy/recent/ http://www22.verizon.com/about/privacy/policy/
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