The words "Nokia" and "MITM" are bound to attract attention. There is a substantive difference between this and CarrierIQ situation; the matter in question is a common, although older, trend that is certainly not limited to the browsers in question. Pages are rendered by a third party for a number of reasons: 1.) the device is underpowered and probably cannot support all the scripts and images of modern webpages, 2.) this enables Flash and other third party plugins not available for the platform, 3.) saves data costs, 4.) this acts as a web proxy, allowing the device to access content filtered in the country. Perhaps the failure is explaining the privacy implications to the user, but other than that, this is not news.
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 6:13 AM, Rich Kulawiec <r...@gsp.org> wrote: > h/t to Lauren Weinstein via his "nnsquad" mailing list. > > Writeup: > > > http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/01/09/nokia-seems-to-be-hijacking-traffic-on-some-of-its-phones-grabbing-your-https-data-unencrypted/ > > Original: > > https://gaurangkp.wordpress.com/2013/01/09/nokia-https-mitm/ > > Question: does there exist a coordinated/organized/systematic effort > to test all extant phones for this and similar problems? Because as > this and CarrierIQ demonstrate, we certainly can't trust the vendors > or the telcos. > > ---rsk > -- > Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech > -- *Collin David Anderson* averysmallbird.com | @cda | Washington, D.C.
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