Rootkit on your smart phone. Yes, your phone.

[ToyotaNSaturn]

This guy unearthed Carrier IQ (CIQ) as a low-level program that you can't kill, that monitors every key stroke.

The 17 minute video is eye-opening.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/so-th...708?tag=nl.e539

 

[ToyotaNSaturn]

The phones that don't have this junk loaded on them:
-Windows Phone 7
-Blackberry
-Apple iOS 5.0 or higher
-WebOS

However, Millions of Androids, Apple iOS4 devices (iPads too?), and Symbian handsets have this junk on them.

 

[beast3300]

Yet another reason why XDA is awesome.

 

[ToyotaNSaturn]

Originally Posted By: beast3300
Yet another reason why XDA is awesome.


+1 on that.