{"id":6335,"date":"2011-12-01T07:02:38","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T07:01:55","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-01T07:01:55","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=6335","title":{"rendered":"HuffPo: Smartphone app records everything for phone carrier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Smartphone app records everything for phone carrier: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2011\/11\/30\/carrier-iq-trevor-eckhart_n_1120727.html?ref=technology&amp;icid=maing-grid10%7Chtmlws-sb-bb%7Cdl1%7Csec1_lnk3%7C116806\">Huffington Post: Carrier IQ: Researcher Trevor Eckhart Outs Creepy, Hidden App Installed On Smartphones (VIDEO)<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A security researcher has posted a video detailing hidden software installed on smart phones that logs numerous details about users&#8217; activities.<\/p>\n<p>In a 17-minute video posted Monday on YouTube, Trevor Eckhart shows how the software \u2013 known as Carrier IQ \u2013 logs every text message, Google search and phone number typed on a wide variety of smart phones &#8211; including HTC, Blackberry, Nokia* and others &#8211; and reports them to the mobile phone carrier. <\/p>\n<p>The application, which is labeled on Eckhart\u2019s HTC smartphone as &#8220;HTC IQ Agent,&#8221; also logs the URL of websites searched on the phone, even if the user intends to encrypt that data using a URL that begins with &#8220;HTTPS,&#8221; Eckhart said.<\/p>\n<p>The software always runs when Android operating system is running and users are unable to stop it, Eckhart said in the video.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And, if the carrier has it, can the government get everything by search warrant from the carrier?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=6335\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}