“There is literally no reason I can think of that I would want my phone to check in with Motorola every nine minutes to see if Motorola has any new instructions for it to execute,” he added. In fact, every nine minutes his phone sends detailed descriptions of the home screen configuration - including shortcuts and widgets. Lincoln also discusses Flickr, Yahoo mail, IMAP/POP3, and data collected for Exchange ActiveSync and RSS feeds. They'll also get a list of which images you're viewing, even though the actual image download comes directly from the source. Most subsequent connectivity to both services (other than downloading images) is proxied through Motorola's system on the internet using unencrypted HTTP, so Motorola and anyone running a network capture can easily see who your friends/contacts are (including your friends' email addresses), what posts you're reading and writing, and so on. After signing into Facebook or Twitter, Lincoln warns: In fact, Motorola is siphoning social networking account data and capturing usernames and passwords for Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Picasa and Photobucket. Motorola's software is “responsible for the personal and configuration data being sent to Motorola,” Lincoln explained. For example, it specifically mentions capturing social networking credentials, as well as uploading GPS coordinates from customers' phones to Motorola.” Lincoln wrote that “ this one in particular (the one for the actual ‘Motorola Mobile Services’ system (AKA "Blur")) has a lot of content I really don't like, and which is not present in the other, similar documents on their site that are much easier to find. Most people probably regard those as tl dr. Motorola has numerous privacy policy and EULA documents. In June of 2013, I made an interesting discovery about the Android phone (a Motorola Droid X2) which I was using at the time: it was silently sending a considerable amount of sensitive information to Motorola, and to compound the problem, a great deal of it was over an unencrypted HTTP channel. This all started when Ben Lincoln wrote about this new disturbing discovery on Beneath the Waves: As a Slashdot comment stated, “The NSA would like to thank Motorola for their cooperation.” Even worse, the data is often sent over an unencrypted HTTP channel. His phone is checking in with Motorola every nine minutes. Be sure to check back often for more tips and tricks on how to use your Android device.You know the NSA is “listening,” nabbing Verizon customers’ cell phone metadata, but did you know that Motorola is listening too? A security engineer with a Motorola Droid X2 smartphone discovered that Motorola is silently slurping up personal info like passwords, GPS data from photos, email addresses, and usernames to name but a few. You can get there by hitting the Menu button (3 vertical dots) from within the Phone app.Īgain, not a new feature, but one you might not of been aware of. Now, should you want to edit these quick responses, you’ll need to go into Call settings > Quick responses to do so. Of course the person calling must have a way to receive text-messages, but as long as they do, you can do the polite thing and inform them you’re busy at the moment but will get back to them as soon as possible.Īfter you swipe up towards the message icon, you’ll be prompted to choose any of the following pre-loaded messages:Īfter you choose what message to send, the caller will receive it within seconds and then be sent straight to your voice mail where they can leave you a message if they wish. You can do the traditional swipe right to answer, swipe left to send to voice mail, or the new swipe upwards towards a messaging icon to send a pre-loaded or custom message to the person calling. In Android 4.0+, when your fielding an incoming call, you now have three options versus the original two. Did you know you can send a quick text response to callers before declining their call? This feature has been around for bit now and usually comes standard in Android devices running Android 4.0+, but if you’re new to Android and wondering what I’m talking about, then read on.
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