This is the reply I made on CrackBerry this morning, but they deleted this Kisses fool's thread. I just copy and pasted my reply as I believe it's valuable info. Sorry, I can not post links (so copy and paste obviously replacing the "xx" with "tt") as I'm new,
but may post here more often as I now have an account here. This Kisses app just makes me mad as hell and I have to get my 2¢ in. I wish CrackBerry wouldn't have deleted this PhoneSnoopers thread as it's a valuable warning for some searching for info on these apps!
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Something fishy when the developer of this PhoneSnoop
hxxp://chirashi.zensay.com/2009/10/phonesnoop-turn-a-blackberry-into-a-portable-bug/ who in their own words describes this app with words like "victim" and "attacker". I could care less if PhoneSnoop was devolved to raise awareness; terrorist acts are committed to raise awareness!
If you still want to install this "spyware detector" be forewarned...Kisses will not detect the developers own spyware PhoneSnoop. Here's an article I found by the Washington Post on PhoneSnoop: DHS: PhoneSnoop app bugs BlackBerrys.
hxxp://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2009/10/dhs_warns_of_blackberry_snoopi.html?hpid=sec-tech
The Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) is warning about PhoneSnoop...
Quote:
BlackBerry PhoneSnoop Application Used to Spy on Users
added October 27, 2009 at 11:59 am
US-CERT is aware of public reports of a new software application called PhoneSnoop. This software allows an attacker to call a user's BlackBerry and listen to personal conversations. In order to install and setup the PhoneSnoop application, attackers must have physical access to the user's device or convince a user to install PhoneSnoop.
US-CERT encourages users to only download BlackBerry applications from trusted sources and to password protect and lock BlackBerry devices.
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To the developer of PhoneSnoop and Kisses, IMHO what you are doing is offering protection from people like you. Keep your grubby, snooping hands off my BlackBerry!
Kisses of Death,
Chris