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Your source doesn't really support your claim.

• lern_too_spel 8y ago
  My source shows hundreds of millions of infected users by one malware instance alone compared to a few thousand per instance on the Play Store. It's hard to miss that the source said this — it's in the headline. This is why Tim Cook shut up about toxic hellstews of vulnerabilities shortly after XCodeGhost came to light. This article's particular malware requires the user to enable accessibility services for the app, which shows a scary warning and requires the user to manually go into settings (can't be done in a single click). XCodeGhost affected every single user who ran the apps.
  • bdcravens 8y ago
    Actually, your source supports the premise that iOS is more secure than Android when it comes to their respective app stores. Apple is so restrictive that it's necessary to plant malware on developer machines (the developers submitting apps aren't even aware of the malware), whereas Play will pretty much let you submit anything (where developers are typically a party to the malware).
    • lern_too_spel 8y ago
      Nonsense. Nothing in that article says that developers can't implant the malware themselves. Apple would be just as powerless to find it. This article just gives one more source of malware that is unique to Apple caused by the slow speed of obtaining its developer tools. Worse, Apple left the malware on users devices and didn't remove hundreds more affected apps from the store until third parties reported them, showing that they were incapable of even simple static analysis of the app binaries. Meanwhile, Amazon and Google had been doing automated static and dynamic analysis of apps uploaded to their stores for years.