your Phone is Spying on you! Carrier IQ

[sithlord48]

if you have not see it yet there is tracking software installed on most all phones that you buy! Reguardless of carrier (except for maybe verizon). and Reguardless of PHONE OS!more on thathere and here and here or just search for it

chances are if you have an android phone (like i do) you have this rootkit on you phone. you can dl this app from xda to check and remove it (only the "pro" version can remove it) but your phone must be rooted to remove it with the program or manually.read here and here


EDIT :::BE CAREFUL THIS MIGHT HAVE KILLED MY ANDROID KEYBOARD!

i removed it from my phone manually . first i varified it was installed with TrevE's Tool. on my phone the output showed three files

[code=carrier iq files]
/system/bin/iqmsd
/system/lib/libiq_client.so
/system/lib/libiq_service.so
[/code]

so i opened up my terminal and first tried to use rm to remove them (u need to su first) as it turns out the /system dir is mounted as read-only (go figure)
so a quick remount as rw was needed. use

mount (to see what is mounted on system)
mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock1 /system (the block info came from the mount list.)

after system is remounted as rw you can simply rm the files like this

rm /system/bin/iqmsd
rm /system/lib/libiq_client.so
rm /system/lib/libiq_service.so

that will leave your phone clean (after a reboot to be save check again with trevE's program). you will still have some log data to remove. but it can all be tracked down from the program.

GOOD LUCK and please report your findings back

[SteveRiley]

Re: your Phone is Spying on you! Carrier IQ

This is one (of several) reasons I prefer to root Android phones and replace the default Android OS with CyanogenMod. Most of the carrier-supplied tracking crap is absent from CM7. Also, you can further protect your privacy by making most of the changes yourself without having to purchase the Carrier IQ app. See my post on XDA-Developers.com, HtcLoggers.apk and other eavesdroppers.

[GreyGeek]

Re: your Phone is Spying on you! Carrier IQ

Cellphone users (as apposed to smartphone users) should be aware that even with your cellphone turned off someone on your service provider's system, with the right tools, can identify your cellphone (with the service provider's help) and listen in on conversations taking place within the vicinity of the cellphone. The only way to prevent this kind of electronic eavesdropping is to take the battery out of the cellphone when you want a truly private conversation.

[sithlord48]

Re: your Phone is Spying on you! Carrier IQ

sadly my pos phone has no custom roms.wish i could use CM7. (LG-P506GO). i've rooted it and the only "custom" rom that you can get for my phone is just a pre rooted one. im going to have to see if i can recompile the android keyboard service from stock android. as my keyboard no longer works on the device.. worst case i will have to reflash the modified stock rom and try again.

[SteveRiley]

Re: your Phone is Spying on you! Carrier IQ

the only "custom" rom that you can get for my phone is just a pre rooted one

Do it. Once you've got root, then you can manually remove all the trackers.

[sithlord48]

Re: your Phone is Spying on you! Carrier IQ

my phone is rooted and im already using that rom.

[SteveRiley]

Re: your Phone is Spying on you! Carrier IQ

Sigh. Once again, my typing gets ahead of my reading! I missed three important words:

... i've rooted it ...

[GreyGeek]

Re: your Phone is Spying on you! Carrier IQ

Don't worry .... the older you get the worse it gets