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Another Android Vulnerability
This one potentially affects HALF of Android devices
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Posted on 07/30/2015 8:44:12 PM PDT by Swordmaker
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ROTFLMAO!
I was on my way to a new phone. Should I delete an android off my list?
97% of mobile malware is on Android. 0% is on un-jailbroken iPhones or modern Windows Phones.
The Hacker Team just offered to sell their complete set of tools for breaking into mobile devices to another company. These are the tools they sell to government agencies at all levels including NSA, CIA, FBI, and other police agencies in every country. The claim they have tools for ALL mobile devices except the Apple iOS iPhones and iPads. They said last week they have not been successful in breaking into iOS devices.
Even if they could hack into the Apple devices, the data in iPhones and iPads is encrypted to 256 bit AES standards using a key that is made up of the user's passcode and the devices 128 bit UUID. Apple itself does not have this key. Both the passcode hash and the key hash are kept in a special FileVault™ location inside the processor inside the iOS devices, unaccessible from outside the iOS device.
Windows phones have very few choices of Apps compared to either Android or iPhones. RIM/Blackberry are dying on the vine. Nokia Symbian is basically dead.
There was also this Android vulnerability from three days ago:
Android Stagefright Flaws Put 950 Million Devices at Risk
The biggest problem with the Android OS philosophy is that Google made an early decision to depend on the carriers and device makers for providing system and security updates. . . and that can take months if they bother to provide them at all. It is not in their interest to do so, so then make little effort to push out upgrades or patches. The makers and carriers want their users to buy NEW Android phones with the newest version that has the patch on it rather than push out a patch or new upgraded Android version to older phones or devices.
Darn you!
I have never had a problem with my Motorola Android. Of course, the only websites I access on it is www.freerepublic.com and Drudge.
Knox turned out to be a joke when it was discovered that Samsung was keeping the passcode in a library in TEXT that was not encrypted outside of any security at all. . . and it was easily found. After gaining U.S. government approval, Samsung Knox security for Android found to be "completely compromised" Thursday, October 23, 2014, 03:07 pm PT
Samsung months later responded that the "Enterprise" version was not so compromised, only their personal version was vulnerable . . . well whoop-de-doo! Why treat their personal users so shabbily?
Sounds safe until Drudge gets hacked. . . of course I have great faith in John Robinson's security measures on FR!
Did you spew your soft drink all over your keyboard?
Well, my ‘smartphone’ is in the ‘range of systems possibly effected’, however, who would be so silly to keep whatever can be laqbeled as ‘personal data’, on an electronic device in a manner that could be ‘pilfered’?
Have we become so lazy in this electronic world, to ‘load’ our ‘smartphones’ with all the buzzwords ‘open sesame’, to access all those crap programs, and stupid social media, that you cannot delete from your ‘smartphones’?
I have often heard the comment, that ‘if the phone system went down inan EMP scenario, all those who placed themselves fully into their ‘smartphones’, couldn’t find what to do with toilet paper, because it cannot be accessed on that ‘smartphone’ of theirs!’
I am with Post. I have a Samsung Galaxy Note 4, cannot recommend it enough. It is a thing of beauty.
Do these exploits only effect Android phones or Android tablets as well ?
Android = Google. Take that for what it’s worth.
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