Waiting for Android’s inevitable security Armageddon

Posted by noondip on Thursday August 06, 2015 @04:29PM
from the arstechnica.com dept.

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/08/waiting-for-androids-inevitable-security-armageddon/

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Re:Waiting for Android’s inevitable security Armageddon by stephengillie on Thursday August 06, 2015 @04:38PM (#10019267)

Suddenly this feels like running a Windows PC just before Blaster came out. Are we going to have an explosion of anti-virus and firewall and other security apps in the coming years?

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Re:Waiting for Android’s inevitable security Armageddon by francoisblavoet on Sunday August 09, 2015 @11:23AM (#10030476)

I doubt it, we already have Play Services for that. Without root access, AntiVirus are not really useful on Android.

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Re:Waiting for Android’s inevitable security Armageddon by gjolund on Thursday August 06, 2015 @09:23PM (#10020464)

Can we please stop calling Android open source.

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