Similar to Apple’s iOS, Android is apparently vulnerable to apps secretly copying photos. Android developer Ralph Gootee created a test app that masquerades as a simple timer but steals the most recent image on the user’s smartphone and posts it on a public photo-sharing site. Critics said the development further emphasizes the danger of Google’s hands-off approach to the Android Market. “The open nature of Android development is a risk,” Patrick Runald, senior manager of security research at Websense, told LinuxInsider.
Either way it seems the same oversight. That pictures were not given their own category or access.
However the open nature is not simply a risk, it is also a benefit. With no central gatekeeper there is no way to set up tolls for access to users. This allows lower prices with less censorship on content.
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Loophole Could Give Android Devs a Private Picture Show
Posted by: Richard Adhikari March 2, 2012 03:03 PMSimilar to Apple’s iOS, Android is apparently vulnerable to apps secretly copying photos. Android developer Ralph Gootee created a test app that masquerades as a simple timer but steals the most recent image on the user’s smartphone and posts it on a public photo-sharing site. Critics said the development further emphasizes the danger of Google’s hands-off approach to the Android Market. “The open nature of Android development is a risk,” Patrick Runald, senior manager of security research at Websense, told LinuxInsider.
However the open nature is not simply a risk, it is also a benefit. With no central gatekeeper there is no way to set up tolls for access to users. This allows lower prices with less censorship on content.