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Not the submitter's fault, but the title is really misleading -- contrast with the first paragraph: "Computer scientists have discovered a method of hacking sm
by michel-slm 12y ago
Not the submitter's fault, but the title is really misleading -- contrast with the first paragraph:
"Computer scientists have discovered a method of hacking smartphone apps across Android, iOS and Windows devices that is effective up to 92 percent of the time on six of seven popular apps, including Gmail."
- radiospiel 12y agoAnd then the paper the article links to is Android only.
- cfontes 12y agoThere should be a way to punish head lines like this.
- michel-slm 12y agoIn terms of Wired's own classification of wired-tired-expired, I guess it's clear which bucket this falls into
- bcn 12y agoAgreed, After submitting and then going to read the paper (http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~zhiyunq/pub/sec14_android_activity_inference.pdf http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~zhiyunq/pub/sec14_android_activity_in...) it's clear the researchers never attempted this attack on anything other than Android, though they do imply that the attack might be possible in other OS.