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Dark Side Arises for Phone Apps
- zitterbewegung 16y agoMaybe now is the time for systems that audit and protect phones possibly?
- adbge 16y ago> The apps were more useless than malicious, but could have been updated to capture customers' banking credentials, said John Hering, chief executive of Lookout, a mobile security provider. Seems like more fearmongering aimed at Google's open market. The article reads like "open == insecure" and subtly implies that Apple's market is too open. Um, what?
- nfnaaron 16y agoWould you buy a bank app from an app store? I think I'd rather get the app directly from my bank. On the other hand, I'm having trouble reconciling that last statement with Quicken downloading data from my bank; I didn't get Quicken from my bank.