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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 27 2013 @ 04:19 PM EDT |
That's another side of the problem. All these people who've only had
a dumbphone and a Windoze desktop, are suddenly presented with
a handheld package capable of running a Mars orbiter. And all these,
drool, free apps. It's all very well for the geeks here to stop and read
the permissions window, and decide if they want the app to know all
those things. I reckon about 94% of my free apps should not be on my
phone if I was paranoid about security. I try to control it a little by my
battery saver technique of having data mode and wifi off except for
the brief times I want it on.
Yes, I've seen apps leap at the occasion and phone home, and yes,
I've run tcpdump on my wifi and confirmed they're only phoning home.
But for the rest of Vox Populi, they're probably not any worse off than
they were running a Windows desktop. They just want to get on
with their game of Angry Nerds.
They don't escape either. The Angry Nerds that is. Look around the
Android Hacker forums and see the threads on malware detection
and removal. It's even more of a risk on a rooted device.
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- I know it's > 0% - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 27 2013 @ 04:34 PM EDT
- I know it's > 0% - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 27 2013 @ 04:47 PM EDT
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