bobsam

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by bobsam 9y ago
Nope, you missread my numbers. I assume it takes one person 2 weeks to fully analyze an app (we are after all looking for well hidden malware, possibly downloaded from network after some use). Times 2.2 million apps. Times an average of 3 u
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by bobsam 9y ago
Ask your Google Assistant to send a message using Allo, see what happens.
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by bobsam 9y ago
Isn't Android TV pretty open in this regard? After all, it even has a VLC app...
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by bobsam 9y ago
The last 1/3 of your comment contradicts the first 1/3 :)
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by bobsam 9y ago
I don't understand your comment. Apple and Google have the same mostly-automatic approval process. (You didnt think apple would manually inspect billions of apps and their updates? 2 weeks per app * 1 billion apps * 3 updates = 115 mil
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by bobsam 9y ago
Fair enough. For the sake of completeness, it should be mentioned that arm, mips and riscv also have 16-bit ISA extensions to achieve better density.
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by bobsam 9y ago
For that matter, what is wrong with MIPS? Open ISA and a full open source implementation by MIPS themselves?
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by bobsam 9y ago
But why not? This is not some complex exploit, just standard JavaScript. I saw the same attitude after the xcode backdoor. "There is no reason to believe any personal data has been affected", well if apple didn't even knew th
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by bobsam 9y ago
> keyloggers generally aren't exploiting any vulnerability That's a very odd definition you have. Rest assured, nobody is saying this kind of apps are acceptable. But calling them malware is not right when they technically don&
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by bobsam 9y ago
From the article: "The company develops mobile apps for both Android and iOS platform" The apps are probably removed from both stores by now so we will never know ;)
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by bobsam 9y ago
FTA: Upon clicking the ads, the malware author receives payment from the website developer, which pays for the illegitimate clicks and traffic
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by bobsam 9y ago
If I read the article correct it downloads JavaScript code to load ad pages. It never bypassed the sandbox. I don't think you can call this malware
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by bobsam 9y ago
That happens on a daily basis, on both stores. There is no way either company can manually inspect billion+ apps plus their updates. So they are putting AI in charge which people seem to ba able to fool once in a while.
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by bobsam 9y ago
Because in Android-land there are better phones for less money. People are disappointed, they had probably expected another miracle from andy, that's all.
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by bobsam 9y ago
If buttery smooth could sell phones windows phone would still be around. With that said, have you used a modern Android recently?
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by bobsam 9y ago
Works with chrome and Firefox, zero plugins.
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by bobsam 9y ago
While we are discussing this, is there a name of OPs behaviour? If not, can I suggest ignorantbragg? How about zippbrag? Maybe whaowhatwhenbrag?
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by bobsam 9y ago
> I don't know who you are You might not know that he created Android, but surely you must know that he created the sidekick?? Jokes aside, if you don't know who he is you probably don't need a smartphone.
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by bobsam 9y ago
NSA has been known to target sysadmins so I wouldn't call this a myth.
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by bobsam 9y ago
Most of the time I see a cracked display it is on an iPhone. Is there a reason Android phones don't shatter as easily? Is it the elasticity of the plastic frame that causes this?
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by bobsam 9y ago
> Closed ecosystems are also knowable, stable, and can produce very happy customers ... until they don't. Then you are screwed. > Now you're just being lazy Now you are just arguing for the sake of the argument.
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by bobsam 9y ago
First link, page 99 says: " armv7m instruction set" The chapter after that even includes instruction encoding. Maybe you were looking for something else?
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by bobsam 9y ago
Iot often use a slightly modified thumb2 which is actually a pretty recent addition to arm ISA.
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by bobsam 9y ago
What are you talking about??? https://static.docs.arm.com/ddi0403/e/DDI0403E_B_armv7m_arm.... http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.dui0553a/BA... There is also the old c
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by bobsam 9y ago
Seriously? HN has really short memory... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11057857 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10066338 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14082491
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by bobsam 9y ago
This was all said on jest, chill man! But now that we are at it, why don't you give me another probable reason a harmless comment was downvoted?
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by bobsam 9y ago
What's wrong with git submodules?
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by bobsam 9y ago
so basically the Facebook app team? Edit: sorry guys, didn't knew you were all on HN :(
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by bobsam 9y ago
How would this work on, say, raspberry pi 2 which also has a powerful GPU?
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by bobsam 9y ago
96KB? A guy I know wrote a Minecraft clone, a left 4 dead clone and a populus clone in 4KB each. (he also wrote the real Minecraft)

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