Mobile phone intelligence company Carrier IQ’s self-named tracking software doesn’t record the contents of a user’s data and is being unfairly targeted by the media and hysterical users, according to several security researchers who have conducted further analysis on the software.“It records the fact that a keystroke occurs, not the specific key the user entered,” Becky Bace, a former National Security Agency computer engineer and founder and CEO of security consulting firm Infidel, Inc., told TPM via email. “Any keystrokes monitored are limited to the user interactions with the numeric keypad, not the alphanumeric keyboard, and are filtered on input for specific sequences that trigger specific diagnostic actions.”
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