What a Loser
O.K., first off, what kind of a pansy-assed puppy-dog loser do you have to be to go and WRITE A PROGRAM when you think your GF is cheating on you??  Hell just dump her and move on to the next girl, OR, better yet, get enlightenment and tell her how much you love an "open" relationship and would she be up for a threesome?  
As to spyware on our phones, is the only solution to go back to a non-smartphone (dumbphone?)? Would thatwork? Or would one have to go all the way back to analog?
As it's gotten more and more acceptable for tech companies to poke and prod us for intel to give their marketing departments (Google reading emails, Facebook setting 'like' on anything you click, RFID tracking) it seems like it's now open season on all personal privacy. Even the goon who programmed Flexispy called illegally wiretapping one's spouse a "legitimate" use of the software! Not in California buddy, you will land your ass in jail for thatshit.
GMSV (Good Morning Silicon Valley) ran a story yesterday about a marketer's version of spyware being loaded on smart phones to tract a user's location, texts, calls and online purchases. Imagine getting ahold of that list of names. It would make a bigger story than some Madam's call list. I can already see some reporter somewhere trying to figure out how to hack that database.
Here's the GMSV story and the link to it in the SJ Mercury news http://blogs.siliconvalley.com/g ... d-is-it-legal.html:
Smartphone tracking: Who’s affected? Is it legal?
POSTED BY LEVI SUMAGAYSAY ON DECEMBER 1ST, 2011 AT 8:58 AM | CATEGORIZED AS UNCATEGORIZED | TAGGED AS ANDROID, CARRIER IQ, IPHONE, MOBILE, PRIVACY, TRACKING, WIRELESS
Following up on our post yesterday about software that tracks most everything smartphone users do
— such as the numbers they dial and the text messages they write — and which doesn’t seem to be able to be turned off, here’s the latest :
• Which phones, which carriers? References to the software, Carrier IQ, have also been found on Apple’s iPhone, according to the Verge. The original discovery, by an Android app developer, focused on Androids, BlackBerrys and Nokia mobile phones. But a paidContent report today says Nokia denies that its phones are compatible with Carrier IQ software, which is made by a Mountain View company. In addition, another Verge report indicates that devices developed with Google, such as the Nexus smartphones and the original Motorola Xoom tablet, do not have the software installed. This indicates that Carrier IQ is installed by manufacturers and/or carriers, supposedly to “improve the user experience,” according to a recent Carrier IQ statement.
As for the carriers, a Verizon spokesman said on a company Twitter account this morning: “To be 100% clear: Carrier IQ is not on Verizon Wireless phones.” GMSV has sought comment from AT&T and Sprint. And according to the paidContent report, wireless providers outside the U.S., including Telefonica and Vodafone UK, say they don’t collect data via Carrier IQ.
• What about the legal issues? Andy Greenberg of Forbes talks to a former Justice Department prosecutor who says that Carrier IQ and carriers that use it may have run afoul of federal wiretapping laws. “When I was at the Justice Department, we definitely prosecuted people for installing software with these kinds of capabilities on personal computers,” Paul Ohm, now a professor at the University of Colorado Law School, told Forbes.
And here's how you turn off Carrier IQ reporting, but that still doesn't remove it from your phone:
http://lifehacker.com/5864159/ca ... -how-to-turn-it-off
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Hell just dump her and move on to the next girl, OR, better yet, get enlightenment and tell her how much you love an "open" relationship and would she be up for a threesome? 
