Google’s Schmidt likens Carrier IQ to a keylogger

Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt today distanced his company from Carrier IQ’s software, even as he described the technology as a keylogger. Schmidt’s comments came at an Internet freedom conference in the Netherlands. A Reuters story from The Hague quotes Schmidt as saying that Carrier IQ’s software is a keylogger…

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Trojan keylogger infests US drone airbase

The base from which the US Air Force directs its ‘remote-killing’ drone aircraft has become infested with Trojans, Wired magazine has reported. According to the story, an unidentified keylogger Trojan has infected the computer systems at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada used to fly the drones on missions over…

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