Carrier IQ references discovered in Apple's iOS
Several issues with this story:<p>1. The reference is found in a 2 year old version of iOS.<p>2. "IQAgent" sounds like things Apple could name, e.g.: I've seen no evidence that this has anything to do with CarrierIQ. There's been no disassembly (unless I missed it) so it quite possibly could simply be the fact that at one point Apple used the two letters "IQ" in an obscure file.<p>3. People watch the data iPhones transmit pretty closely, I know I have on occasion watched iOS devices talking to the cloud.  If "every keystroke, every SMS" were being logged, I'd think people would have more than just a filename to go on.<p>4. As mentioned it seems this file is not used outside of diagnostic mode, which makes this much ado about nothing at this point.<p>I think its fine to be suspicious, but these things really should be approached with some objective detachment until actual transmission of user data that shouldn't happen is uncovered.<p>I don't know how many of the points above apply to the "indications" in android as well, but I think we should have more neutral, unemotional, and detached coverage of it as well.<p>I think spying on people is bad, and I think that americans are spied on more today than ever before.  I think that's also why we have to be really careful about reporting it.<p>Edit: Deleted a digression that pointed out that the government is including language in recent legislation that allows them to collect data about us that previously would have been illegal. This was a distraction from my main point.