agent123

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by agent123 13y ago
You don't seem to have any understanding of how Android works. The buck does stop at vendors since they are the ones who ship OS updates to consumers. Vendors don't prioritize updates because their customers don't understa
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by agent123 13y ago
"Google winning is good for everyone" is propaganda that Google uses when they are threatened. Google is no different from any other corporation. Once they have power, they exercise it to their advantage to increase their share
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by agent123 13y ago
That plus the fact that Android tablets aren't really used and the game is much better on a tablet than a phone.
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by agent123 13y ago
Instead of minimizing or dismissing serious problems as 'already patched', hackers could help by warning consumers about the proliferation of Android malware. If sales were jeopardized, vendors would start caring about updates.
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by agent123 13y ago
A commit to a repository does not equal a patch to the half billion vulnerable devices in the field.
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by agent123 13y ago
What he leaves out is that he waited less than a day for a response. (You can see this from the radar shown in his video)
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by agent123 13y ago
His video shows that he filed radars on July 19th - the same day downloaded the 100,000 developer names and email addresses. This is not responsible reporting, and he's clearly broken the UK computer misuse laws, since he signed an a
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by agent123 13y ago
He claims that he reported the bug to Apple before doing a 'pentest' but his video shows a radar filed on 19th. On the plus side, it seems like not so much a 'penetration' as a data leak from some GWT code.
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by agent123 13y ago
You can't have it both ways. They were transparent. Complaining that it was 3 days after the incident is irrelevant since we don't know how much investigation was required for them to understand the problem.
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by agent123 13y ago
Seems like it's just your imagination: http://www.loopinsight.com/2013/07/21/apple-comments-on-deve...
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by agent123 13y ago
How? They took it offline.
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by agent123 13y ago
No. That tells us nothing about how big the breach is. Only how much effort it is taking for them to be confident that they've properly patched it.
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by agent123 13y ago
Shadenfreude? Do you mean something other than just enjoying their misfortune? And 'taking responsibility' means solving the problem. They have told us what they are dealing with. What more do you want from them?
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by agent123 13y ago
In Google's case, it's because Google advocates (and often incentivizes) the disclosure into its care. Since Google has been participating in this spy program for at least 5 years, while continuing to encourage people to give it
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by agent123 13y ago
That's exactly what Apple has tried to do, and although it hasn't completed the job yet, is much further along than anyone else. Google on the other hand makes it's money out of analyzing people's communication and onlin
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by agent123 13y ago
Isn't that the chromebook pixel?
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by agent123 13y ago
Doesn't it concern anyone that this is a computer on which absolutely nothing is private?