• Android, BlackBerry and Nokia Log Everything You Do

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    Security researchers have discovered that iPhone running iOS 4 were storing a cache of data on which GPS locations that handset had visited in an unencrypted file, it was dubbed LocationGate and later the whole debacle was just a bug but Apple has to testify in front of the Senate about the matter

    Following the incident, one user sent an email to Apple asking for answers. If he didn’t get them soon, he said, he’d switch to Droid; they don’t track him. An email from Steve Jobs, which dropped something of a bombshell: he said Apple doesn’t track anyone’s location, but that Android tracked everyone.

    Now time has proven Steve Jobs right. Android phones do track you. In fact, software that comes pre-installed on millions of Android, BlackBerry and Nokia phones log everything you do with your device, and sends them off secretly to its own servers. Trevor Eckhart, the developer who discovered the software, released a video of his findings, watch it below.

    Carrier IQ will log and save each key dialed. When receiving a text message, Carrier IQ will process and log the text message, before the user even sees it. Web searches are stored by the service as well, logged in plain text. No encryption. That’s incredible. One privately held company that almost no one has ever heard of has the complete logs of every email, phone call, web search and text message ever sent or received by millions of Android, Blackberry and Nokia users.

    In a phone interview to Wired.com, a marketing manager for Carrier IQ defended what the product does:

    We’re not looking at texts. We’re counting things. How many texts did you send and how many failed. That’s the level of metrics that are being gathered.


    [via CultOfMac]

  • Apple iOS 4.3.3 iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, Direct Download Repository

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    Apple just released iOS 4.3.3. It’s available now in iTunes if you check for updates.

    As mentioned iOS 4.3.3 improves the way iPhones and iPads handle the location tracking database stored on-device by making is smaller and encrypted. The location database will be no longer backed up to iTunes and it will be deleted entirely when Location Services are turned off.

    Here are the direct links for iOS 4.3.3:

    Or this more handy table for the complete set:

    device current version date found
    AppleTV(2G) (AppleTV2,1) 4.2.1 (8F202) 03/22/2011 16:12:01
    iPad (iPad1,1) 4.3.3 (8J3) 05/04/2011 13:19:01
    iPad2,1 (iPad2,1) 4.3.3 (8J2) 05/04/2011 13:19:01
    iPad2,2 (iPad2,2) 4.3.3 (8J2) 05/04/2011 13:19:01
    iPad2,3 (iPad2,3) 4.3.3 (8J2) 05/04/2011 13:19:01
    iPhone (iPhone1,1) 3.1.3 (7E18) 04/08/2010 21:05:48
    iPhone3G (iPhone1,2) 4.2 (8C148) 11/22/2010 13:08:57
    iPhone3GS (iPhone2,1) 4.3.3 (8J2) 05/04/2011 13:19:01
    iPhone4 (iPhone3,1) 4.3.3 (8J2) 05/04/2011 13:19:01
    iPhone4(vz) (iPhone3,3) 4.2.8 (8E401) 05/04/2011 13:19:01
    iPodTouch(2G) (iPod2,1) 4.2 (8C148) 11/22/2010 13:08:57
    iPodTouch(3G) (iPod3,1) 4.3.3 (8J2) 05/04/2011 13:19:01
    iPodTouch(4G) (iPod4,1) 4.3.3 (8J2) 05/04/2011 13:19:01
    last updated: 05/04/2011 13:20:01 EDT