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Re:Android Backdoor GhostCtrl Can Silently Record Your Audio... by Joeri on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @09:08AM (#14796207)
The point is that android makes it possible. You don't have these things on iOS because apple doesn't allow them, where google does.
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Re:Android Backdoor GhostCtrl Can Silently Record Your Audio... by Ajedi32 on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @09:22AM (#14796297)
Any platform which allows users to install arbitrary software of their own choosing "allows" this. GNU/Linux for example, also allows this. As do Mac, Windows, and jailbroken iOS.
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Re:Android Backdoor GhostCtrl Can Silently Record Your Audio... by Joeri on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @01:40PM (#14798517)
This is the choice everyone makes: safety in a walled garden, or freedom outside of it. For my phone I much prefer the safety trade-off, so I would never choose android, but for my work laptop I wouldn't want to be locked down in a similar way.
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Re:Android Backdoor GhostCtrl Can Silently Record Your Audio... by SippinLean on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @10:14AM (#14796642)
How quickly you forget the malware that was served by the iOS App Store

https://sputniknews.com/science/201509211027280404/

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Re:Android Backdoor GhostCtrl Can Silently Record Your Audio... by willstrafach on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @11:06AM (#14797085)
The link does not describe malware served by the iOS App Store at all. XcodeGhost was indeed worrisome as it is unwanted code, but it did not actually perform malicious actions beyond those found in a standard analytics library included by many developers in their apps.
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