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Android doesn't trust developers. It trusts users - everything has to be disclosed and users have to agree. It is a open platform, not walled garden. We have h
by vetinari 10y ago
Android doesn't trust developers. It trusts users - everything has to be disclosed and users have to agree. It is a open platform, not walled garden.
We have https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_pigs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_pigs problem there.
- rubatuga 10y agoThanks for that, it seems to explain most of the problems security faces today. It's similar to how social engineering works, for example, even if someone was told that plugging in a dropped USB stick is dangerous, they may still do it because of the burning curiosity inside. ( I myself would take a peek, at least on a sandbox or VM )
- pishpash 10y agoAndroid trusts developers a hell of a lot more than users.
- swiley 10y agoAndroid does /not/ trust users. The enormous pile of crap I have to go through just to disable selinux and get write access to the sdcard and ext4 partitions is ridiculous.