Phoning home is a controversial issue for software manufacturers, developers and end-users. Phoning home refers to communication between a user’s software or hardware and the manufacturer. Certain applications may collect and store information about the end user and transmit it back “home” to the manufacturer. However, phone-home software has a number of different applications that include malicious and non-malicious uses. This article will explore various uses of phone-home software, as well as the security questions that are [...]