[Da Coyote]

They become democrats?

[Swordmaker]

Link Only article from Ars Technica on a new vulnerability for Android that will cause half of all Android devices to go into a persistent vegetative state. It can be overcome by restarting the device, but it can be invoked by an App that can be set to open on restart. The vulnerability is buried in malformed videos. — PING!

Shadow Ace, DayGloRed, for your list's attention!

Another Android Vulnerability
This one potentially affects HALF of Android devices
Ping!

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[Terry L Smith]

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!’

[ShadowAce]

[csvset]

Do these exploits only effect Android phones or Android tablets as well ?

[big'ol_freeper]

My old Motorola Droid was put in a permanent vegatative state when Verizon finally got the iPhone. The Droid is a great paper weight though.