Mac OS Ken: 12.02.2011

Mac OS Ken

Ken Ray

Technology

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🗓️ 2 December 2011

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Apparent Rootkit - Carrier IQ - Installed on Most Android, BlackBerry and Nokia Phones / iPhone Dev Team Member chpwn Finds Reference to Carrier IQ in iOS 5 / Apple Says It Stopped Supporting Carrier IQ with iOS 5 on Most Products / RIM Says It Has Nothing to Do With Carrier IQ / Nokia Says Carrier IQ Not on Its Phones (No Way, No How) / HTC: Blame the Carriers for Carrier IQ / Verizon Wireless Says It Does Not Use Carrier IQ / Sprint Says It Uses Carrier IQ But Does Not (and Cannot) Snoop / AT&T and T-Mobile Say They Use Carrier IQ for Quality Not Snooping / Senator Franken Seeks Answers from Carrier IQ on Software and Consumer Info Collected / Business Insider: Carrier IQ Offers “Weak” Statement on Service / Ticonderoga Securities Analyst Sees Upside for Apple in Big Sales for Wintek; iPhone 4S Into China Soon / Vodacom South Africa to Get iPhone 4S on 16 December / ChangeWave: 96-Percent of iPhone 4S Owners Satisfied with Their Phone / CIRP: 45-Percent of iPhone 4S Buyers Paid a Penalty/Premium to Get Their New Phones / GigaOm: Mophie and Best Buy Recall Some Battery Packs for iOS Device / Australian Sales of Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Blocked for at Least One More Week / BBC Expands Global iPlayer for iPad App to Canada; Keeps Dissing U.S. / Official: Grand Central Terminal Apple Store to Open 9 December / New York State Looking into Terms of Apple’s Grand Central Terminal Lease

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0:00.0	Today's audio Advent calendar, 16 solid milk chocolate santa's. This is MacOS Ken.
0:21.0	Suddenly we care about carrier IQ more signs that iPhone 4S is bigger than big and
0:27.5	New York City prepares for the arrival of another Apple store it's Friday
0:32.4	December 2nd, 2011. I'm Can Ray and this is news
0:37.4	from Maco-S-Can. Brought to you by yours truly and supported by listeners like you subscribers to Mac-O-Bray. you
0:43.2	subscribers to MacoS Ken Day 6.
0:46.7	More information is available at MacoS Ken.
0:49.2	dot com.
0:50.7	This show is also supported by the MacoScan Podcast app for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch,
0:58.0	available in the App Store now for $2.99.
1:03.5	So there's been this thing going on with Android phones this week.
1:07.7	Well it's been going on with Android phones for a while, but it's come to light over the
1:11.2	past week or so.
1:12.8	About a bit of software on Android phones
1:14.8	that was meant to help carriers and phone makers
1:17.0	do quality control.
1:19.1	The thing is, Android developer Trevor Eckhart
1:21.4	says it actually keeps track of nearly everything
1:23.8	someone does with their phone according to a piece about the issue from Wired.
1:28.3	Wired says the software called Carrier IQ is installed on most modern Android, BlackBerry, and Nokia phones.
1:37.0	And Eckhart says it logs text messages, encrypted web searches,
1:41.0	and other things that would seem unnecessary as far as quality
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