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how is that different than exploiting security flaws in iOS ?

• scarface74 8y ago
  There is a difference between a security flaw and insecure by design as with Android. One simple example is how third party keyboards work on both platforms. First the user has to install the keyboard, then explicitly go to settings to use it and even then it doesn’t have network access by default. The user has to go back into settings to give it network access and iOS gives you a big scary warning. Even then, iOS will switch back to the standard keyboard when you type into a password field.
  • on_and_off 8y ago
    You could just as easily argue that iOS is by nature insecure since absolutely exterior audits are impossible.
    • scarface74 8y ago
      It isn’t “impossible.” People have been analyzing assembly language programs and hacking them since the dawn of personal computers. How do you think Google has been able to find exploits in iOS? I have no idea why people think that assembly language is the language of wizards. Between the binary blob drivers that the OEMs don’t even have access to and Google Play Services, Android is equally hard to audit.
      • on_and_off 8y ago
        false equivalence