The Electronic Frontier Foundation on late Wednesday issued an open call to hackers with jailbroken iPhones and rooted Android phones to send in copies of a piece of code from Carrier IQ, the controversial mobile intelligence software that was discovered to be operating in the background on upwards of 30 million phones in the U.S.
“We’re reverse engineering Carrier IQ Profiles, but we need some help from hackers with rooted #CIQ phones,” the group tweeted.
The EFF has taken a leading role in the Carrier IQ controversy from the onset, leaping to the defense of the Android researcher who originally brought the software to light, only to face the threat of a lawsuit from Carrier IQ. After the EFF intervened, Carrier IQ backed down and has been fending off a groundswell of criticism over its software ever since.
