After being caught not only hijacking its phone users’ traffic but also decrypting the secure traffic of its users, Nokia has tried to mop up the mess created by the discovery this Friday.
After getting discovered and exposed on how they were rerouting their users’ traffic to their own servers by software installed by default on their phone, and decrypting it – only ‘temporarily’ according to Nokia -, Nokia started rerouting the traffic to other servers. However, naturally, the damage to Nokia’s reputation was done.
Nokia is claiming that it has never abused the information, checked its users’ information, or snooped on their traffic, but these claims are irrelevant. In the end, they have engaged in a major security and privacy breach without the knowledge and consent of their users.
Geoffrey Ingersoll at Businessinsider looks into the situation in detail, and analyzes the impact.
