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
Hello, that is really interesting, thanks. My customer only treats iPhones as secure, I have a Galaxy S5. Would it be possible do you think for Google to offer a service where you analyze source code and optionally only allow passed apps to be downloaded? The impression in the corporate world is that Android is an insecure platform.
Hello, that is really interesting, thanks.
My customer only treats iPhones as secure, I have a Galaxy S5. Would it be possible do you think for Google to offer a service where you analyze source code and optionally only allow passed apps to be downloaded? The impression in the corporate world is that Android is an insecure platform.
I'll just say we're working on it:-)
As the AC who responded mentioned, though, you can always set up your own app store with well-analyzed apps. And it's also worth pointing out that Google does analyze apps for a wide variety of malware signals before making them available on Play.
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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:2)
Hello, that is really interesting, thanks.
My customer only treats iPhones as secure, I have a Galaxy S5. Would it be possible do you think for Google to offer a service where you analyze source code and optionally only allow passed apps to be downloaded? The impression in the corporate world is that Android is an insecure platform.
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P.S. interested in the results of analyzing MS apps ;)
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Hello, that is really interesting, thanks. My customer only treats iPhones as secure, I have a Galaxy S5. Would it be possible do you think for Google to offer a service where you analyze source code and optionally only allow passed apps to be downloaded? The impression in the corporate world is that Android is an insecure platform.
I'll just say we're working on it :-)
As the AC who responded mentioned, though, you can always set up your own app store with well-analyzed apps. And it's also worth pointing out that Google does analyze apps for a wide variety of malware signals before making them available on Play.