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Released: December 02, 2011
Security researchers find privacy leaks in fundamental pre-installed Android apps
Source: Jamie Condliffe, Gizmodo
Though phone manufacturers have been distancing themselves from the Carrier IQ furore, there are plenty of other pieces of software that could be tracking you, too.
A team of researchers from North Carolina State University have been looking into the standard configurations on a bunch of Android smartphones from Google, Motorola, HTC, and Samsung. They found that none of the phones effectively protect privileged permissions from untrusted applications, which could mean that any application could record conversations, track SMS messages, or even wipe user data without needing the user’s permission.
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