full-disclosure - Re: Trustlook Found Hundreds of Malicious Applications in the Google Play Store

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Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 16:04:02 -0400
From: Jeffrey Walton <noloader@...il.com>
To: bugfree <bugfree@...il.com>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Trustlook Found Hundreds of Malicious
 Applications in the Google Play Store

On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 11:13 AM, bugfree <bugfree@...il.com> wrote:
> Here is the article.
>
> http://blog.trustlook.com/news/trustlook-found-hundreds-of-malicious-applications-in-the-google-play-store/
>
Peter Gutmann has a lot of fun with over-permissioned battery apps in
his book Engineering Security
(www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/book.pdf).

As you've learned, allowing naive users to give invasive apps too many
permissions is not perceived as a threat. Its a shame AOSP is still
making the same engineering mistakes from the 1980s and 1990s. Users
are not going to miraculously wake up tomorrow with additional
security-IQ points.

Jeff

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