Android..mmm
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Android..mmm
Fastest growing sector ?
No wonder when you see that not all is as you see
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11443111
No wonder when you see that not all is as you see
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11443111
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But for a bit more 'savvy' information on this go to ... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09..._android_apps/ ...
"... And to be fair, there's no way of knowing what liberties apps on competing platforms take with users' personal information. The researchers were able to monitor Android apps only because the operating system is open source. That allowed them to develop TaintDroid, software that labels, or taints, data from privacy-sensitive sources so it can be monitored in real time. There are no guarantees apps for Apple's iPhone or Research in Motion's Blackberry would fare any better if subjected to the same scrutiny ..."
My emphasis. JC can't gloat too much ....
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"... And to be fair, there's no way of knowing what liberties apps on competing platforms take with users' personal information. The researchers were able to monitor Android apps only because the operating system is open source. That allowed them to develop TaintDroid, software that labels, or taints, data from privacy-sensitive sources so it can be monitored in real time. There are no guarantees apps for Apple's iPhone or Research in Motion's Blackberry would fare any better if subjected to the same scrutiny ..."
My emphasis. JC can't gloat too much ....
Dave
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We all know that the other OS's collect data. Even Apple have been open with their latest point updates and set controls for the user to limit the flow of data from the handsets.
BUt Android has never up until now disclosed this information
BUt Android has never up until now disclosed this information
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But the point is, you are told before installing it that it wants access to various things/permissions.
If spackers are too thick to realise what they mean, then they should give up the techy android path, and go back to the painting by numbers competition
If an app wants your location, then you either let it, or deny it.
Its no different from some unwitting clown putting bank details into a dodgy website.
I do agree that maybe the permissions should be fleshed out a little, but even if it explained everything, donkeys would still just install it anyway without checking it.
If spackers are too thick to realise what they mean, then they should give up the techy android path, and go back to the painting by numbers competition
If an app wants your location, then you either let it, or deny it.
Its no different from some unwitting clown putting bank details into a dodgy website.
I do agree that maybe the permissions should be fleshed out a little, but even if it explained everything, donkeys would still just install it anyway without checking it.
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