The real lesson around the Carrier IQ story is that soon everything we use will be spying on us. My argument on the Beast is that as long we’re going to have these feeding frenzies every time someone finds out about some new snooping technique, we might also start to realize that this is the new reality we’ve created. It’s only going to get worse when the “Internet of things” (sensors in everything) becomes a reality. Welcome to the digital panopticon. One funny footnote: When I wrote the Beast story, this morning, I ended by predicting that soon someone in Congress would recognize the opportunity to generate publicity and announce some kind of inquiry. I didn’t realize it would happen so quickly. Thank you, Al Franken.
So what if your phone is a spy?
Posted by Dan Lyons on Dec 1, 2011 in Tech | 4 comments
There is a middle ground between letting this happen or get off the Internet.
good article, d. but don’t be too hard on al. i like him, i think his heart is in the right place on things like preserving net neutrality, therefore opposing the at&t-t-mobile merger, and the questions he puts to Carrier IQ are in keeping with this. this is his wheelhouse, and i don’t see it as grandstanding so much. well, not more than any other senator on a given day.
…. and people thought I was a dork for using an iTouch with Skype instead of a “real” mobile smartphone. Ha! It is interesting to note, this rootkit isn’t any Windows based smartphone. KInd of an insult to Microsoft, when you think about it, eh?
At the moment when you wanna give up,think about why you have come this far.