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The key question for them is "Why can't users disable Carrier IQ on their device, and why does it run if the cellular antenna is disabled?"
by flyt 15y ago
The key question for them is "Why can't users disable Carrier IQ on their device, and why does it run if the cellular antenna is disabled?"
- tptacek 15y agoTwo plausible answers: (a) Because the carriers don't want you to, if only because it would increase support costs to have to walk users through turning it back on, but probably mostly because normal people don't really care about the stuff CIQ is intended to do. (b) Because the feature for disabling CIQ with cell service disabled makes zero money for any party involved and therefore has slipped every MRD given to its engineering team.
- jimrandomh 15y ago> why does it run if the cellular antenna is disabled? That's easy; they can't reliably tell between disabled cellular service and broken cellular service, and the carriers really want to know about the latter. Well, they probably could figure out whether service is supposed to be disabled, but the mechanisms that control whether service is enabled are, themselves, one of the things that CarrierIQ would be used to detect problems with.