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November 25th, 2011, 11:25 AM
Software maker sorry for trying to silence security researcher
Withdraws legal threats over mobile 'rootkit' claims
By Dan Goodin in San Francisco • Get more from this author
Posted in Malware, 24th November 2011 00:47 GMT
A Silicon Valley software maker has withdrawn legal threats against an Android developer who claimed the company's diagnostic application amounted to a rootkit that posed a privacy threat to millions of handset owners.
In a statement issued on Wednesday, Mountain View, California-based Carrier IQ apologized to Trevor Eckhart for threatening to sue him for publishing training manuals he said supported his rootkit characterization. The about face came a few days after the Connecticut-based Android developer received legal support from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which asserted his postings were protected by the US Constitution's First Amendment. ...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/24/carrier_iq_about_face/
I don't have an Android phone. The most hi-tech thing I have used my fat old pay as you go cell phone for is to let facebook send me a SMS verification code so I could get a friendly URL for my facebook account.
I was interested in EFF even before the Vietnamese commies and "capitalist" mining company joined forces to "attack" me by infecting my Vietnamese Professional Society (VPS) Input Method Editor (IME) with an infection to accomplish DDoS attacks against web sites promoting land rights of indigenous rural mountain residents.
"we have met the enemy and he is us" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogo_%28comic_strip%29
Yiddishkeit calls it the "yetzer hara".
Withdraws legal threats over mobile 'rootkit' claims
By Dan Goodin in San Francisco • Get more from this author
Posted in Malware, 24th November 2011 00:47 GMT
A Silicon Valley software maker has withdrawn legal threats against an Android developer who claimed the company's diagnostic application amounted to a rootkit that posed a privacy threat to millions of handset owners.
In a statement issued on Wednesday, Mountain View, California-based Carrier IQ apologized to Trevor Eckhart for threatening to sue him for publishing training manuals he said supported his rootkit characterization. The about face came a few days after the Connecticut-based Android developer received legal support from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which asserted his postings were protected by the US Constitution's First Amendment. ...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/24/carrier_iq_about_face/
I don't have an Android phone. The most hi-tech thing I have used my fat old pay as you go cell phone for is to let facebook send me a SMS verification code so I could get a friendly URL for my facebook account.
I was interested in EFF even before the Vietnamese commies and "capitalist" mining company joined forces to "attack" me by infecting my Vietnamese Professional Society (VPS) Input Method Editor (IME) with an infection to accomplish DDoS attacks against web sites promoting land rights of indigenous rural mountain residents.
"we have met the enemy and he is us" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogo_%28comic_strip%29
Yiddishkeit calls it the "yetzer hara".