88 Serious Security Bugs Identified in Android 2.2 "Froyo"

[Stang289]

Link

 

[SunnyD]

Point #1 of mobile computing: Don't do/put anything on a mobile device that you need to consider secure. Duh.

 

[Stang289]

Point #1 of mobile computing: Don't do/put anything on a mobile device that you need to consider secure. Duh.

So, you are okay with people accessing your email, voicemail, app market username and password, etc.?

 

[rudeguy]

main point:

None of them really matter

 

[Stang289]

main point:

I don't see that quote anywhere in the article. I did see this one though:

The team identified 359 bugs in the code. Of these, 88 of them (roughly 25 percent) were categorized as "high risk" -- bugs that could endanger users' privacy.

 

[SunnyD]

So, you are okay with people accessing your email, voicemail, app market username and password, etc.?

They can't access voicemail, as that's stored on the carrier network.
If they want to read my email (my gmail account is a semi-spam account), then sure.
App market username/password? Yeah, please, go enter your credit card information and buy me some apps.

Are they going to steal my Angry Birds high scores? Oh darn.

As I said, if you're doing anything that requires a high level of security on a mobile device, well, you deserve whatever happens to your data.

 

[Bateluer]

They can't access voicemail, as that's stored on the carrier network.
If they want to read my email (my gmail account is a semi-spam account), then sure.
App market username/password? Yeah, please, go enter your credit card information and buy me some apps.

Are they going to steal my Angry Birds high scores? Oh darn.

As I said, if you're doing anything that requires a high level of security on a mobile device, well, you deserve whatever happens to your data.

Google Voice voicemail isn't stored on the carriers network?

 

[rudeguy]

I don't see that quote anywhere in the article. I did see this one though:

I provided more input more than your OP.

You feeble attempt at trolling has failed.

 

[Stang289]

I provided more input more than your OP.

You feeble attempt at trolling has failed.

My OP was a link to an article. Your quote was pulled out of your a$$. How is posting a link to an article at a reputable website trolling?

 

[rudeguy]

My OP was a link to an article. Your quote was pulled out of your a$$. How is posting a link to an article at a reputable website trolling?

you gave no intelligent input and still haven't. Your track record in this forum has been strictly bashing Android and trolling Android threads. I got 5 Tweets last night with that same article except they at least gave a one sentence brief on it. That brief is what I quoted.

Posting an article with no input offers nothing to this forum.

 

[zerocool84]

My OP was a link to an article. Your quote was pulled out of your a$$. How is posting a link to an article at a reputable website trolling?

because almost every mobile phone OS has big security flaws. If you care about security either use only Blackberry or don't do stuff on a modern mobile phone.

 

[Stang289]

you gave no intelligent input and still haven't. Your track record in this forum has been strictly bashing Android and trolling Android threads. I got 5 Tweets last night with that same article except they at least gave a one sentence brief on it. That brief is what I quoted.

Posting an article with no input offers nothing to this forum.

This was an FYI post. I did not see another post that mentioned this article and I thought that it was something good for the forum users to know about. I do not have a track record of bashing android, because I have limited experience with it. I owned an iphone 3g for two years, but have since moved on to a pre plus which I like much better. If I had seen a similar article about either of those platforms that hadn't been posted here yet, I would have posted it also.

Feel free to post your proof of my trolling and android bashing.