People Are Freaking Out About Carrier IQ, The Hidden Smartphone Program That Tracks Everything You Do

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The mobile community is up in arms about a huge new privacy issues with smartphones related to Carrier IQ, a hidden program that tracks almost everything you do.

Carrier IQ is a program that comes preinstalled on many mobile phones from manufacturers like Samsung, HTC, Nokia, BlackBerry, and supposedly Apple. It has the ability to track and record everything on your phone from the content of your text messages to the web pages you visit. Carrier IQ can even record every key you press and has the potential to transmit this information to a third party without the user knowing.

How did everyone find out about this?

A few days ago, an Android developer named Trevor Eckhart discovered Carrier IQ hidden on several mobile phones and that it had the ability to track pretty much everything the user does. From there, everything exploded.

At first, most only thought that Android phones and a few models from Nokia and BlackBerry had Carrier IQ installed. But it didn’t take long for the iPhone hacker chpwn to discover that iPhones running iOS 3 an above contain the Carrier IQ program, but it’s unclear whether or not it transmits any user data.

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Biden: We’re Not ‘Claiming Victory’ in Iraq

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WASHINGTON — Vice President Joe Biden said Thursday “we’re not claiming victory” in Iraq, but he believes the emerging government in Baghdad is capable of defending itself.

Interviewed on NBC’s “Today” show from Iraq, Biden was asked about the impact of the U.S. combat troop withdrawal, likely to be complete within weeks. He replied, “This is no rush.”

Biden added that in the three years of the Obama administration, “We’ve done this in a way that nobody thought could be done.”

The vice president said there is no validity now to “the idea that there is sufficient capacity to bring down this government, to fundamentally alter this democratic process that is under way.”

“We’re not claiming victory,” he said. “What we’re claiming here is we’ve done our job the administration said it would do. To end a war we did not start, to end it in a responsible way … and to leave in place the prospect of a trained military, a trained security force under democratic institutions where the disparate parties for the first time are actually working together.”

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