Verizon Accused of Remote Controlling Droid: Truth Somewhat Stranger
Wired, November 18, 2009
By Charlie Sorrel
A rather odd bug in the Droid phone has been mistaken for a secret, silent, over the air invasion by Verizon's software update police. When a problem with the Droid's autofocus mysteriously disappeared overnight, paranoid Droid owners assumed that a secret update had been sent over the air to fix it. This would be rather creepy. It is also wrong.
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