> it seems that all this stuff is mostly
> to provide social networking integration for MotoBlur
I'm not sure why you'd give them the benefit of the doubt. There's no way they built apps in 20 different flavors that consume ALL network traffic and redirect it to their servers, simply as an accidental rookie mistake.
I don't feel like buying into the idea that it was all consultants hired on short term by motorola, in a mad scramble to create an android platform and compete with the iPhone, working under a temporary contract with no accountability.
I don't even want to buy into the idea that maybe there was a large team of disinterested 9 to 5 corporate drones, with a middle manager who was a real dick with a middling paycheck as a mediocre incentive to produce high-quality work, who inspired nothing but apathy in his subordinates, and was too lazy, and too interested in fantasy football, to check their work for network security practices.
Capture ALLLL the traffic, and don't encrypt it? As an innocent mistake?
I don't feel like buying into the idea that it was all consultants hired on short term by motorola, in a mad scramble to create an android platform and compete with the iPhone, working under a temporary contract with no accountability.
I don't even want to buy into the idea that maybe there was a large team of disinterested 9 to 5 corporate drones, with a middle manager who was a real dick with a middling paycheck as a mediocre incentive to produce high-quality work, who inspired nothing but apathy in his subordinates, and was too lazy, and too interested in fantasy football, to check their work for network security practices.
Capture ALLLL the traffic, and don't encrypt it? As an innocent mistake?
No way. I can't put the blinders on, here.