Comments on: Updated: Android wallpaper app that takes your data was downloaded by millions

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Mobile Security: Are Most Apps Safe? — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:39:48 +0000

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hermes birkin — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 04:53:36 +0000

everyone should know about this ASAP… Like many others are saying: it's not extremely shocking and I expect many more of these type articles in the future. Everyone needs to be careful and understand what they're getting themselves into.

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By: atwas911

atwas911 — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 20:20:21 +0000

assuming that the person downloading is even smart enough to know what that screen means when its displayed.. People are so used to “next, next, next, install..” no one really pays attention anyways.

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By: Charles L

Charles L — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 00:12:58 +0000

So bogus news like this isn't really about malware is it? Thank you for proving my point vinosp.

By: vinosp

vinosp — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 18:36:19 +0000

I'll give the $1 billion Chinese an apology when they elect a democratic government where the rule of law is simply not for party leaders and they stop stealing intellectual property like there is no tomorrow or when they stop supporting north korea. It's not the Chinese that have a problem it's that the rest of the world has been brainwashed by the notion t hat whatever China does is somehow morally right because the US has done something wrong in the past. The Chinese are hurting themselves by their closed society – seen any Nobel prize winners or life changing innovations from China lately?

By: Charles L

Charles L — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 09:37:05 +0000

Dean, you owe the developer, and 1.3 billion Chinese an apology. Our media indoctrinates us with this “Red China” crap anything bad said about them is automatically accepted as truth.People like you will not be happy unless there's WWIII – then where you gonna get your iPhone, iPad?

By: kirkk

kirkk — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 22:50:00 +0000

Really… the app warned users that it would be sending their personal information to a server in China. Well in that case what's everyone so worked up about?

By: The Fat Oracle

The Fat Oracle — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:47:45 +0000

Not well investigated and not cool. You may have destroyed a developer's reputation and affected his livelihood forever because you were careless.

By: lisa allojum

lisa allojum — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:36:59 +0000

Geee.. that's not cool.. how can that app gather out personal data then shared to some mysterious site? bad!

By: Jim Main

Jim Main — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:54:20 +0000

The PC won the destkop because it had an early monopoly of the software market, not because Windows was 'open'.

By: talestuff

talestuff — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:08:51 +0000

>>As sick as I am of my iPhone's dropped calls, I'm even more sick of Apple treating us all like a bunch of idiots<

By: Intuitit Power Strip

Intuitit Power Strip — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:55:00 +0000

I just take a look at their so called “Mobile Security FREE”. Man, permissions they ask are covering every single bit of a user's personal information.I have to say, I believe that jackeey wallpaper more than the Look Out.Look out the Look Out.

By: David F

David F — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:01:30 +0000

Ouch. Kind of moronic if I might say.From your original post:”Processing power and battery technology will only increase, allowing for the use of virus scanners etc in phones.”Great. Does a ton of good for anybody TODAY. So what does the mass use in the meantime? Please, tell us.”If the buyer/user isn't conscientious enough to protect themselves and take the warnings that Android provides them with seriously, then they might get burned. Just as they would if they didn't install security software on their PC and went to sites that tend to contain malware (pr0n and warez sites).”Ah. Now I get it – you prefer that the masses HAVE A TECHNICALLY CLEAR concept of the intertubz. Personally I think that's a viewpoint that has little merit. I mean how many people carry cell phones? How many would prefer a smart phone? But wait. You mean I need a technical B.S. degree to carry one?I think you do because:”You're making a mistake saying that smart phone users are somehow less capable than PC users, since PC users far outnumber smart phone users. There will be dumb smart phone users who are incapable of basic troubleshooting, but they will also be using the phones simply for email and web browsing, and won't be using apps much (I know women who use iPhones like this).”…[Sorry. Had to spend 10 minutes finding my jaw that dropped on the floor and rolled into the next room.]Okay, look, dude. First off – can you expand your horizons just a bit? Can you see how sexist you just sounded? Sorry but – no I'm NOT sorry. Dude, and I am being very polite – you are a moron.Now let's get to what you meant to say. You know, overlook the narrow minded, sexist, ego-centric crap you just laid on the world.Smart phone users – a market that RIMM barely held control of until 1-2 years ago – isn't filled with users with little “PC knowledge”? And “PC users” outnumber them? What planet are you from? Next thing you're going to state is that MSFT is about to conquer this market in calendar Q3 2009. Er, make that H1 2010. Er, um, maybe Q4 2010.Whatever.”We've seen this movie before. In the 1980s, Apple jumped out to an early lead in personal computers, but then got selfish. Steve Jobs, a notorious control freak, just could not play well with others.”Yes. I *love* when people use this argument. History always repeats itself. I mean… computers, MP3 players, smart phones… OH. WAIT. Damn it! That pesky iPod – walled, iTunes sync thing, doesn't play well with anyone else – that has dominated until… well, there goes THAT argument, right? “He's created his own advertising platform, and stacked the deck in his favor by refusing to share user data with other platforms.”Factually wrong on two counts. He BOUGHT that platform – and only after he couldn't outbid Google. And he is playing things perfectly right in not sharing user data with COMPETITORS [ emphasis intended].”He's even censoring content, ruling out material that he deems to be offensive. Not just porn, but anything that's racy or suggestive, or that “ridicules public figures.”"Some consumers – maybe the masses, but sure, yet to be seen – would consider this a feature. A good thing.”What makes this even more insulting is that Jobs tries to dress up his selfishness as a kind of altruism.”Now, I agree with this sentence. Just not the context. Jobs runs a public company – and maximizes sales/profits like very few others. It's not exactly “selfishness” – save that word for the soon to be departed CEO of BP. But there is a side of this I can most certainly agree on. In his “antenna-gate” Q&A he states flat out that the Apple Stores were built out of love of the consumers.That would be a shining example of the Steve Jobs RDF.”Well, bull. The truth is, this is about Apple wringing every last dime out of its ecosystem and leaving nothing on the table for anyone else.”The developers who have been paid $1,000,000,000 might beg to disagree.”As sick as I am of my iPhone's dropped calls, I'm even more sick of Apple treating us all like a bunch of idiots, stonewalling and bullying and feeding us ridiculous explanations for the shortcomings of its products—expecting us to believe, basically, that its flaws are not flaws, but strengths.”Haven't had a single dropped call myself. But maybe you have. I believe there is a problem. Atually I believe that more than I believe YOU own an iPhone. Sorry, moron, but I have to call it like I see it.

By: colejolley

colejolley — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:30:10 +0000

Probably countless. Definitely maybe. Sometimes never. Most likely.

By: Ben Hoagland

Ben Hoagland — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:04:54 +0000

“That was a hole in the App. CitiBank is responsible for that. Go read the news.Also, shutup. “=> 1)You are a complete and utter moron. The issue here was the app, not google. So what you said doesn;t even make sense.2) If you read the actually report from Lookout it stated that BOTH platforms are equally risky/vulnerable. In fact, when directly asked if Android was more risky/vulnerable than the apple market they said NO. So take your own advice and GO READ THE NEWS3) The app didn't actually steal most of the information it was first reported to have. IT took very basic information that a great portion of apps on bothplatforms regularly takealso…. please shutup

By: Ben Hoagland

Ben Hoagland — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:04:54 +0000

By: Rick Anderson

Rick Anderson — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:56:05 +0000

This line of reasoning is so tiresome. It's not a comparable situation. Back then, Macs weren't compatible, hardware or software, with the large majority of established PCs. Apple was fighting an uphill battle. That's not the case with the iPhone. They don't have to be compatible with any pre-existing systems to succeed because no single system dominated the smartphone market the way PCs dominated the computer market back then. Also, phones are not open in the same way PCs were. You could build your own PC back then. Know anyone building Blackberries or Palms or Android phones?Cell phones, unlike computers, have always been closed hardware and closed software. Trying to say Apple is making a mistake by having a closed product in a market that was already closed to begin with is meaningless and attempts to draw parallels that aren't there.

By: Rick Anderson

Rick Anderson — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:56:05 +0000

By: andbot

andbot — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:33:16 +0000

I did some digging and I have compiled a list of the potential apps that could be affected and I'll update it when I find out more info…http://andbot.com/blog/index.php/2010/07/29/and…

By: Jay Potts

Jay Potts — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:15:43 +0000

No, smartphones aren't MP3 players. That's exactly what made the iPhone the massive success it was. It took the smartphone, and made it into a mini-PC (or a mini-Mac). That's where the smartphone is now.The software library is what will determine success in this market moving forward.Your assertion that Apple doesn't stifle innovation on their app store is demonstrably untrue. Apple has rejected numerous apps for various reasons… such as competing with Apple's own products, or presenting ideas that Apple doesn't like, or simply rejected without ANY explanation.This will, ultimately, harm Apple's development community, which will eventually harm the platform.

By: Jeff Workman

Jeff Workman — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:23:39 +0000

Keep on drinking that Apple Kool-Aid, kiddo.Open systems are the way of the future. Security through obscurity is very, very rarely a Good Idea.

By: ersouza

ersouza — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:07:57 +0000

This article is irresponsibly labeling this theft when nothing has been corroborated on that front. Lookout, the research firm, simply called the app “questionable”. There's no indication that the app is somehow grabbing more information than its permissions (granted by the user) allow. No one has determined what info is being sent to the Chinese server and no one has contacted the developer yet.

By: rattyuk

rattyuk — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:29:36 +0000

“The only freedom on an 'open' smartphone is the freedom to run crappy junk software.”Nope, you are forgetting the ability of a company that is using it's monopoly in search to attempt to destroy a market that it's competitor (and whose CEO was actually a board member of said competitor) created. But hey.