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Motorola cell phones are regularly phoning home

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Re: Motorola cell phones are regularly phoning home

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Post by speeder »

Since lots of this data is sent through not encrypted HTTP, this means that NSA (and any other intelligence agency) can also get all this data...

Then people wonder the "nothing to hide" well, you might not, but will everyone you know be bothered you are sending their e-mails around to intelligence agencies?

Re: Motorola cell phones are regularly phoning home

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Post by cmircea »

speeder wrote: post #3

Since lots of this data is sent through not encrypted HTTP, this means that NSA (and any other intelligence agency) can also get all this data... Then people wonder the "nothing to hide" well, you might not, but will everyone you know be bothered you are sending their e-mails around to intelligence agencies?

What if you DO have something to hide? Company secrets can be very, very valuable for someone.

Re: Motorola cell phones are regularly phoning home

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Post by dendory »

If true, it's surprising that it took so long for someone to find this. Isn't it trivial to check on what your phone is sending off if you use wifi with a network scanner?

With that said I bet this is all for their social networking integration, some engineer thinking it would be cool for them to aggregate all your social data in the cloud, with no concept of the privacy implications.

Re: Motorola cell phones are regularly phoning home

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Post by javert »

cmircea wrote: post #4
speeder wrote: post #3

Since lots of this data is sent through not encrypted HTTP, this means that NSA (and any other intelligence agency) can also get all this data... Then people wonder the "nothing to hide" well, you might not, but will everyone you know be bothered you are sending their e-mails around to intelligence agencies?

What if you DO have something to hide? Company secrets can be very, very valuable for someone.

Use encryption all the time, and don't use any Microsoft products. All companies that have valuable secrets should already have this policy in place.

Re: Motorola cell phones are regularly phoning home

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Post by ealexhudson »

speeder wrote: post #3

Since lots of this data is sent through not encrypted HTTP, this means that NSA (and any other intelligence agency) can also get all this data... Then people wonder the "nothing to hide" well, you might not, but will everyone you know be bothered you are sending their e-mails around to intelligence agencies?

Given Motorola are now owned by the same Google that participates in the PRISM programme (et al), I'm really not sure the encryption matters so much.
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