FBI says Carrier IQ files used for "law enforcement purposes"

[Eugen Leitl]

On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 08:22:48PM +0100, Visgean Skeloru wrote:
> Afaik the carrier iq was distributed outside of the USA - in Europe. So it
> seems more likely that carrier iq was only providing service for FBI, but
> FBI was not responsible for the organization itself...


Some Huaweis sold in Europe (my Ideos X3, installed but
*purportedly* inactive) had the rootkit.

Nothing new there; you can't trust proprietary firmware.