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Earlier this week we gave our take on Carrier IQ, the mobile network diagnostic tool that has seen an increasing amount of scrutiny recently. Since that time, we’ve heard from a number of our users that are increasingly concerned that their handsets may contain Carrier IQ’s software. While there are a number of blogs that have posted instructions on how to detect and/or remove Carrier IQ software, these are largely technical in nature and difficult for the average user to follow.
We’ve developed Carrier IQ Detector to help our users better determine whether or not their handset contains Carrier IQ software. This application does not remove Carrier IQ software from your device. Because Carrier IQ software is deeply integrated with handset firmware, users would be required to attain special device privileges in order to remove it. Side effects of this process have the potential to put users at further risk of malware infection while making devices ineligible to receive firmware updates in the future. If you are sure you know what you are doing and would like to remove Carrier IQ software from your phone, there are a number of guides available online. If you have made previous attempts to remove Carrier IQ software from your device, our Detector may still report its presence. This can be caused by incomplete removal attempts that do not remove all relevant files.
We’re committed to protecting the privacy and security of our users, and will continue to actively engage on this topic.
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[...] Lookout said that Carrier IQ was “deeply integrated with handset firmware [and] users would be required to attain special device privileges in order to remove it,” then warned that doing so incorrectly could “put users at further risk of malware infection” and possibly make them unable to receive future phone updates. [...]
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