Can someone please explain why the rage is not directed at phone manufacturers who asked for, and put this software in the phones they sold to customers?
Because every single statement from phone manufacturers have indicated that it was the carriers that demanded this be put on the handsets (or did it themselves in cases of operator modifications).
The only carrier I've heard say very clearly that they are not using Carrier IQ is Verizon.
Aww. Poor vulnerable and naive billion dollar phone manufacturers! </sarcasm>
How does that exonerate the phone manufacturers? At the very least they should have disclosed this to the people they sold phones to.
Even at that why is the rage not directed at the carriers? In addition, I doubt the carriers can make such modifications without the active participation of the phone manufacturers.
[1] http://www.theverge.com/2011/11/22/2581952/xda-developers-me...
Now, that is an entirely different matter. Thanks for bringing this perspective.
People gave up their privacy on the web (hey, you don't get mad at Google for sites having Google Analytics tracking code all over the web do you), now it'll slowly transfer to other platforms.