Carrier IQ Sees Your Every Keystroke and More: Researcher

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November 30, 2011 9:17 AM EST

Carrier IQ (CIQ) is emerging as a bogeyman of the mobile devices world thanks partly to the efforts of Trevor Eckhart, a mobile developer and security researcher.

Eckhart characterized CIQ as rootkit software that needs to clarify its collection of user information.

Based on tests he conducted on his HTC EVO device, he claims CIQ logs the following user information:

Key in HTCDialer Pressed or Keyboard Keys pressed -

Intent - com.htc.android.iqagent.action.ui01

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App Opened -

Intent - com.htc.android.iqagent.action.ui15

Sms Received -

Intent - com.htc.android.iqagent.action.smsnotify

Screen Off/On -

Intent - com.htc.android.iqagent.action.ui02

Call Received -

Intent - com.htc.android.iqagent.action.ui15

Media Statistics -

Intent - com.htc.android.iqagent.action.mp03

Location Statistics -

Intent - com.htc.android.iqagent.action.lc30

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