Until April fools. Seriously, is this a joke? Maybe if they have a juicy gov't contract that'll buy these up. Other than that every company is just going to buy a Windows tablet for a $1000 and put their own security software (which is already certified and tested up the wazoo) on it.
With Windows, you get security updates every second Tuesday. For free, for years, and in a timely fashion.
On Android, you are lucky if Google deems a bug worthy of fixing. The best sandboxing is useless if the OS itself has known and remote exploitable security issues, as Android usually does.
On Android, you are lucky if Google deems a bug worthy of fixing.
I'm a member of Google's Android security team, and I want to correct this. The only component in which Google doesn't fix bugs is the old Webview implementation. I'm not going to try to explain or defend that decision, just note that at this point we think it's more productive to get apps to stop using it to display untrusted content on pre-4.4 Android. Outside of that, Google does provide fixes to all significant issues that are reported to us, and we provide those fixes to device manufacturers, at no cos
The permissions system on Android is such that you can't really install any apps at all without compromising all of the data on the device. Every app asks for permission to everything. Why would anybody even bother going after an OS-level attack. Just create some marginally useful app, put it in the app store, and you have control over just about every Android device out there. And if I'm not going to install any apps, I might as well get a Blackberry. I have a Nexus tablet and like it. But I don't keep any data on there that I wouldn't be willing to share with the world. Like my contact list. I use a Blackberry Z10 for my phone. Corporate IT doesn't want to support BB anymore since it's apparently too much work. So I had the choice iPhone or Android. Without a doubt I took iPhone. At least I can install an app without having to give it access to my contact list! There's no point of talking about Android security until you can set permissions the same way as iOS. It's an oxymoron. The is the first time I've ever felt bad for somebody who works at a big-brand tech company like Google.
The permissions system on Android is such that you can't really install any apps at all without compromising all of the data on the device.
Nonsense. Even with every permission that's offered you can't get to most of the data on the device. Apps have no access to data stored by other apps, for one huge example.
The rest of your comment seems to all follow from this erroneous assumption.
There is no time like the present for postponing what you ought to be doing.
Um... it's 16 days (Score:5, Insightful)
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This.
With Windows, you get security updates every second Tuesday. For free, for years, and in a timely fashion.
On Android, you are lucky if Google deems a bug worthy of fixing. The best sandboxing is useless if the OS itself has known and remote exploitable security issues, as Android usually does.
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On Android, you are lucky if Google deems a bug worthy of fixing.
I'm a member of Google's Android security team, and I want to correct this. The only component in which Google doesn't fix bugs is the old Webview implementation. I'm not going to try to explain or defend that decision, just note that at this point we think it's more productive to get apps to stop using it to display untrusted content on pre-4.4 Android. Outside of that, Google does provide fixes to all significant issues that are reported to us, and we provide those fixes to device manufacturers, at no cos
Re:Um... it's 16 days (Score:1)
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The permissions system on Android is such that you can't really install any apps at all without compromising all of the data on the device.
Nonsense. Even with every permission that's offered you can't get to most of the data on the device. Apps have no access to data stored by other apps, for one huge example.
The rest of your comment seems to all follow from this erroneous assumption.