Why does it exist?
It exists because Apple paid them for it.
Carrier IQ also probably had a version for WP7.
This seems entirely absurd on its face, since WP7 apps must run in the Silverlight sandbox. How would you presume CarrierIQ would defeat the isolated storage, or the priveledged API testing that Microsoft performs?
No, without direct support from Microsoft, Carrier IQ could not run on WP7. WP7 is closed source, you are aware, no? Its not like AT&T or Samsung compiles the OS from scratch; most of it comes as precompiled binaries.
Since the CarrierIQ rootkit reports directly to Apple, your statement that, "It does not matter to me who was culpable in the *deployment,* the issue is the *collection" seems incorrect as well.
Nope, Apple is vertically integrated, and as such there is no plausible deniability here. They put CarrierIQ into your iPhone.
They have a direct hand in spying on you, just as in GPSgate. |
