EFF reverse engineers Carrier IQ [telecom]

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EFF reverse engineers Carrier IQ

By Sebastian Anthony December 22, 2011

At this point we have a fairly good idea of what Carrier IQ is, and which manufacturers and carriers see fit to install it on their phones, but the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) - the preeminent protector of your digital rights - has taken it one step further and reverse engineered some of the program's code to work out what's actually going on.