Imagine how differently Carrier IQ?s fortunes would be if instead of engaging lawyers and flaks to address alleged privacy breaches they engaged the actual discoverer of those breaches, security researcher Trevor Eckhart. For those of you not familiar with the story it is the latest example of a company that let hubris trump transparency and in the process has potentially committed suicide. When Mr. Eckhart found potential key logging and personal message logging by a supposedly harmless performance data-tracking application built by Carrier IQ and installed on over 100M phones, the maker had a choice: attack the messenger or attack the problem.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/31emq87z1pM/
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