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Title is misleading, it makes it sound like the backdoor is in the Android software while this is just malware.
by tym0 9y ago
Title is misleading, it makes it sound like the backdoor is in the Android software while this is just malware.
- Joeri 9y agoThe point is that android makes it possible. You don't have these things on iOS because apple doesn't allow them, where google does.
- Ajedi32 9y agoAny platform which allows users to install arbitrary software of their own choosing "allows" this. GNU/Linux for example, also allows this. As do Mac, Windows, and jailbroken iOS.
- Joeri 9y agoThis is the choice everyone makes: safety in a walled garden, or freedom outside of it. For my phone I much prefer the safety trade-off, so I would never choose android, but for my work laptop I wouldn't want to be locked down in a similar way.
- SippinLean 9y agoHow quickly you forget the malware that was served by the iOS App Store https://sputniknews.com/science/201509211027280404/ https://sputniknews.com/science/201509211027280404/
- willstrafach 9y agoThe link does not describe malware served by the iOS App Store at all. XcodeGhost was indeed worrisome as it is unwanted code, but it did not actually perform malicious actions beyond those found in a standard analytics library included by many developers in their apps.