Android and security
| Yesterday in the BBC news, there was an item on malware apps for Android smartphones. For example, you download something that promises to save on battery power and it phones home to a premium-rated phone line and racks up an enormous bill. I am puzzled because Android is a form of Linux, and we Linux users are always boasting about how secure Linux is and how hard it is for malware to do anything seriously harmful to your system. Why is Android so vulnerable? |
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