Originally Posted by alanwarwic:
“So you are saying it is on and used on 100% of all the iPhone 4.”
It is still present -
for now - on the iPhone 4 but as I said before in both previous posts it has to be
opted into.
Originally Posted by Matt D:
“it was used by an option within Settings, an option which is off by default and has to specifically be opted in to.”
A user would have to deliberately go to Settings > General > About > Diagnostics & Usage and then choose "Automatically Send".
Or
When setting an iPhone up for the first time, a user would have to deliberately opt in when it asks you during the set up
if you want to enable diagnostic reporting.
Not on by default, plus the data is only for Apple.
Quote:
“"It was just for diagnostic data that was sent to Apple, and customers had to actively opt in to that to even provide us that level of information," Apple tells us. "If they opted in, that data was sent anonymously, and in encrypted fashion. We did not record keystrokes, messages or any personal information for the diagnostic data, and we have no plans to in the future."”
Anyway. This has nothing to do with the topic in question. Carrier IQ on iOS was not malware. It was present because Apple put it there, so obviously no AV would detect it as it was part of the OS. And when it was present, it was a) purely for sending anon. data to Apple, and b) it had to
specifically be opted into. Not hidden, not secret, no keystroke logging, no SMS logging, etc.