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Google to Remotely Remove Malware-Laden Apps From Android Devices
- J3L2404 16y agoFrom the comments after the article. >Might as well mention that those “useful” applications were ripoffs of popular applications on the store. Hackers downloaded them, modified them, then reuploaded them under similar-sounding names. Hacking aside, it’s nice to know one could always make a living downloading and reposting other people’s work to the free-for-all otherwise known as the Android Marketplace.
- duskwuff 16y agoAnyone else find it incredibly ironic that, despite all the wailing and gnashing of teeth when Apple's ability to remotely uninstall apps was discovered a few years ago (e.g, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/3358115/Apple-iPhone-kill-switch-discovered.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/3358115/Apple-iPhone-k...), Google has ended up remote-killing apps before Apple?