Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● December 20, 2011
If you’ve never heard of something called Carrier IQ, then that’s probably about to change; all because of a potential privacy storm brewing about how cell phone companies may be using this technology to keep track of absolutely everything you do with your cell phone. Maybe not everything you say or text, but the jury [...]
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Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● August 31, 2010
It’s estimated that more than 85% of US consumer have a cell phone, and increasingly those cell phones are smart phones. But just because your phone is smart, doesn’t necessarily mean it’s smart enough to be secure. There are more than a dozen ways your smart phone, and any other cell phone, can expose you [...]