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Massive Security Vulnerability In HTC Android phones

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Stoic Joker:
So is this strictly an HTC Android issue?? ...Or is it more that the rest haven't been checked yet?

I ask, as I have an HTC WP7 that I'm a tad leery of at the moment.

Eóin:
So far it's strictly Android. I believe MS put restrictions on what software manufacturers and carriers can preinstall which would mean tracking apps like this very dodgy HTC android one would have the be vetted by MS, and I bet would not be allowed.

Stoic Joker:
So far it's strictly Android. I believe MS put restrictions on what software manufacturers and carriers can preinstall which would mean tracking apps like this very dodgy HTC android one would have the be vetted by MS, and I bet would not be allowed.-Eóin (October 03, 2011, 07:27 AM)
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Oh great, so now there is an upside to draconian software policys... *Sigh* ...Sometimes I really wish I was smart enough to give-up.

Eóin:
I do like that MS put major restrictions on the sort of bloat carriers and manufactures love to add. The popularity of installing "stock" android roms show how annoying the custom UIs to some people out there, myself included.

Nonetheless, that MS went the Apple way of only allowing apps be installed through their marketplace is disgraceful. Honestly I don't understand how such practices don't fall foul of of various regulations to support competitiveness.

Darwin:
There are some advantages to playing in a walled garden... I have all three major mobile OS's, in their latest incarnations, and do like being able to side-load apps on Android. However, a lot of what I AM able to sideload is DROSS. Also, being forced to use the app store or the marketplace makes updates down the road simpler. I have an office suite that I bought for Android via the developer's website rather than the marketplace and the purchase came with dire warnings about NOT updating via the marketplace but from within the suite itself lest my registration details be wipted out (likewise, if purchasing from the marketplace, users are warned not to update from within the suite itself). I don't really want to have to worry about this, but have to...

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