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Which is why I am glad I got a firewall on my phone and whitelist selected applications to have internet access.
You should read the article. Apparently any app that you give permission to use the Internet can leak all your data. Are you absolutely positive that every single free app you download is safe?
Android is not having a good time with security this week. The Samsung Galaxy S II on AT&T is very easy to unlock without the PIN or password. http://www.bgr.com/2011/09/30/major-security-flaw-lets-anyon...
These issues are manufacturer dependent and not Android issues.
Android is not having a good time with security this week. The Samsung Galaxy S II on AT&T is very easy to unlock without the PIN or password. http://www.bgr.com/2011/09/30/major-security-flaw-lets-anyon...
These issues are manufacturer dependent and not Android issues.
Which is why I am glad I got a firewall on my phone and whitelist selected applications to have internet access.
And it looks like (at least on CM) non-whitelisted apps can make DNS queries as well (so they can still send the data home).
This is an awesome reason to root your phone the second you get it. I've done so to both of my Android phones. You know that cyanogenmod is safe from this kind of blatant wiretapping, and on top of that, you don't have to worry about hassling with it when you need to tether, or when you want to install an application that requires root permissions to function well. :)
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You should read the article. Apparently any app that you give permission to use the Internet can leak all your data. Are you absolutely positive that every single free app you download is safe?
I only let apps I trust access the internet.
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One of the affected models, the Thunderbolt, only now started getting updates to Gingerbread this week. That is, until Verizon halted it due to a major usability bug that should have been identified easily in carrier testing (voicemail notifications don't work). Given that it took it took HTC this long to get an update to an Android version that's been available in source since December and they still managed to mess…
Surely the blame there is on Verizon. My aging, carrier-free HTC Nexus One gets regular updates.
Do you know how OTA updates are pushed out for the non-Google Android phones that are bought without a contract?
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Surely the blame there is on Verizon. My aging, carrier-free HTC Nexus One gets regular updates.
There are only two ways I recommend Android - use a Google-branded phone that Google will provide complete OS support for, or go it alone with OS updates from a 3rd party. For non-geeks the first option is the only viable one, IMHO. You've obviously settled on the same conclusion.
I'm pretty sure that even if HTC fixes this mess I would have to wait forever for Orange to push the update with its custom sw.