Exploiting security holes in Flash Player for Android to jailbreak

necrecious wrote: post #3

jessor wrote: post #2

i wonder if someone smells the business model in this.

You mean virus protection software for your phone? :p

How about purposefully not providing Adobe Flash on your mobile dev ice because it's insecure and unstable?

Nah, that'll never work.

Re: Exploiting security holes in Flash Player for Android to jailbreak

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Post by jsz0 » Tue, Jul 06, 2010, 6:22 PM UTC

I'm surprised we haven't heard more about the increasing difficulty of rooting Android phones. On an open platform I would expect this option to exist in the Settings menu somewhere maybe with a warning that it might void your warranty or crash your phone. I don't think people should be advocating Android as a free/open alternative until this situation is resolved. It's very misleading.

Re: Exploiting security holes in Flash Player for Android to jailbreak

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Post by benologist » Tue, Jul 06, 2010, 6:30 PM UTC

ydant wrote: post #4

necrecious wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You mean virus protection software for your phone? :p

How about purposefully not providing Adobe Flash on your mobile dev ice because it's insecure and unstable? Nah, that'll never work.

It doesn't really matter much that Flash has vulnerabilities, being the #1 google result for facebook login, or a fake login, or a scam email, or a fake app is more than enough to exploit people.