So what would CD had done about this problem? He'd probably just reveal what Carrier IQ was doing (which Trevor Eckhart had done) and let the people, the consumers, bring down Carrier IQ through their purchasing power. No one wanted a phone with Carrier IQ on it which mean't that only phones without Carrier IQ spyware on it would sell. The market adjusted, and Carrier IQ was brought down.
Thursday, January 26, 2012
After spying on android users was mentioned I remembered the entire Carrier IQ fiasco that caused an uproar last year and decided that maybe it was something I could look into. Though personally I wasn't really affected, I knew that the majority of users out there didn't know how to remove, let alone detect, Carrier IQ's spyware. (To have been able to detect Carrier IQ you'd need an app developed by XDA developer, supercurio. If you wanted to remove it you could simply flash a custom ROM by CyanogenMod or MIUI which didn't have any of Carrier IQ's nonsense). Obviously if this had affected me personally I would be pissed. People can do stupid things on their phones, things they may not want others to know. If someone was recording everything you did (Carrier IQ had supposedly been able to track keystrokes) then this so called privacy you thought you had would just be an illusion, the reality being someone out there knew a bit too much about you than they should've.
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The big plan was to launch our own ARG in September, just in time for the election, and to really tie it in with signing up voters and getting them to the polls. Only 42 percent of Americans showed up at the polls for the last election -- nonvoters had a huge majority.
ReplyDelete"Van, I need you to do something for me. Something important. I need you to meet with the journalist from the Bay Guardian, Barbara Stratford, the one who wrote the article. I need you to give her something." I explained about Masha's phone, told her about the video that Masha had sent me.
"What good will this do, Marcus? What's the point?"
"Van, you were right, at least partly. We can't fix the world by putting other people at risk. I need to solve the problem by telling what I know. I should have done that from the start. Should have walked straight out of their custody and to Darryl's father's house and told him what I knew. Now, though, I have evidence. This stuff -- it could change the world. This is my last hope. The only hope for getting Darryl out, for getting a life that I don't spend underground, hiding from the cops. And you're the only person I can trust to do this."
In hindsight, maybe I should have unlocked my phone for them.
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