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Posts by Planty
328 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Jan 2015
Good God, we've found a Google thing we like – the Pixel iPhone killer
EU turns screws on Android – report
Re: Google bar on home screen
So essentially this situation is this:
Microsoft ship Windows with a fixed shell and search (Cortana) that ties you to Microsoft services and search and IE as the default browser, you can't disable either, but you can install another browser.
Google ship Android with their own shell, their own search, and Chrome, but you can replace all of them, and disable the Google browser and shell totally. You are under no obligation to use any Google services and can decline during setup.
Someone want to show me what the problem is here?
Oops: Carphone burps up new Google phone details
Hmmm, ok then.,...
" the inability to update the installed base with the platform updates that new Google services require"
Google Play Services does exactly this, updates the base platform, delivering new functionality, without needing a new underlying OS. It's compatible all the way back to Gingerbread. (Android 2.3)
Google Play Games, Remote Device Wipe, Google Cast, Nearby (Beacon support), Cloud Messaging, Smart Lock, Wear Support, SafetyNet, Wallet, loads more besides.
All these things get updated on ALL Android phones back to Gingerbread...
Want to make US$1.5m this weekend? Just jailbreak iOS
Apple to crunch iOS 10 local backup password brute force hole
Re: Using old phones
Changing variables like OS updates you mean? The Samsung Galaxy S5 (used in the demo) was cracked using Android 4.2, the latest version of Android for the S5 is Android 6.01 with March 2016 security update.
This whole story is bogus, much like most security researchers "research", they intentionally mislead with select devices and select (and pretty much universally out of date) software versions.
Why is nobody calling these "experts" out on this? If I were to do a security article on Windows ME edition, it would be laughed off, how is this any more credible?
Ofcom punts network-sniffing Android app
Fanbois iVaporate: Smallest Apple iPhone queues ever
Google's become an obsessive stalker and you can't get a restraining order
Opinion: Your choice
Unless you are a total pleb, we are all aware of the deal Google offers.
Lots of nice stuff, for free, in exchange for knowing stuff about you, and using that knowledge you serve you more relevant adverts.
That is is. If you don't like it, go to Apple or Microsoft, or Yahoo, Facebook or whoever, and they will do EXACTLY the same, but offer you inferior products or less free stuff.
Plusnet broadband outage: Customers fume as TITSUP* continues
Nest offers its thermostat in three new pretty colors!
Inside our three-month effort to attend Apple's iPhone 7 launch party
Re: You're applying for it wrong
And this is what iPhone plebs fail to understand. £100 of thier iThing purchase goes into a media schmoozing fund, so BBC RCJ and the like get freebies and jollies, in exchange for saying nice things about everything apple.
It's a perfect circle of awesomeness, and if you are too stupid to see this, then you would never know and actually think these people genuinely love these products and are buying them.
Google emits three sets of Android patches to fend off evil texts, files
HDMI hooks up with USB-C in cables that reverse, one way
Google scraps its Project Ara modular smartphone wheeze
Latest Intel, AMD chips will only run Windows 10 ... and Linux, BSD, OS X
Windows 10 now rules the weekend, taking over from Windows 7
Apple sued over shoddy iPhone touchscreens
WhatsApp is to hand your phone number to Facebook
Facebook are the scummiest of the lot. They don't delete your data. I left Facebook 5 years ago, requested data deletion. If increase a fake account now, provide no real details, it has friend suggestions of family and friends. Clearly my IP address and friends data is still in there.
Google gets all the bad rap, but Facebook and Microsoft are the real bad guys.
Update your iPhones, iPads right now – govt spy tools exploit vulns
Re: 3rd party browsers
I think you have been fooled by Apple's pathetic spin. All those browsers you mention are forced to use Apple's webkit (and slow JS engine), so you are still using Safari, but with a Chrome skin.
Essentially this is the downfall, the sample exploit will work on ANY iOS browser, as you aren't actually using any other browser...
riddle me this
stagefright
quadroot
Pegasus
two of these get all the press coverage and have never been actively eploited in the wild, the other is without a doubt the most severe vulrability ever to have hit mobiles, and whilst now patched on some devices, the amount of data gathered by it is unknown.
Seems to me like when its Apple, problems are dowplayed (22 comments), when it's Android, even if its only a theoritical exploit, it's headline news for weeks.
The press need to start responsible reporting. BBC are the worst, they are in damage limitation mode on this, but the last few Android theoritical exploits have been major smug-fud mode.
Google broke its own cloud by doing two updates at once
Re: Change management 101
Might be possible in a small fred in the shed organisation, but something the size and complexity of Goggle, these sort of things can't really be avoided, especially when humans are involved.
I suspect those on their high horses, might want to look closer to home, as I suspect they work in IT, and have yet to come across a perfect IT department, actually not even close. Incompetence runs rife usually.
Five-storey Blue Screen Of Death spotted in Thailand
English Uber alles in London taxis? No way, TfL – taxi app titan
Re: Do I really need my driver to speak English?
Clearly you have never used Uber, THE DESTINATION IS DETERMINED AT TIME OF BOOKING BY YOU, USING THE APP. The driver doesn't need to speak to you, that's the point...
How difficult is this for people to grasp?? Quite honestly hard for cabbies it seems.
Microsoft to overhaul Windows 10 UI – with a 3D Holographic Shell
Adblock Plus blocks Facebook's ad-blocker buster: It's a block party!
Google says most users 'protected' against 'Quadrooter'
Re: Google says it will have that one patched soon
And as pointed out by Google (and the billions of Android users that never actually suffer effects of these overblown problems), its not going to matter. It will get caught in the next layer of the Android security onion.
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Latest Androids have 'god mode' hack hole, thanks to Qualcomm
Not really. Never ever actually seen a exploited Android device in the wild, despite Stagefright, despite this and all the other scare stories.
Not a day goes by where I don't see a malware infested Windows device.
Those two are literally worlds apart. Anyone that claims different is either an idiot, or has an agenda.
Android's latest patches once again remind us: It's Nexus or bust if you want decent security
Nope, Google do a better job of patching, and a more open disclosure. Sadly the press rip s new asshole becuase of that, rather than acknowledgement of full disclosure. Pathetic is the word we are looking for.
Google will likely just stop revealing details if this press clickbait nonsense carries on.
Google-backed Thread, OCF form alliance for Internet of Things sanity
Microsoft axes 2,850 more Windows Phone, sales staff – a week after Justin Timberlake sang on stage for them
Microsoft buries the bad Windows Phone news: Mobile sales collapse
Google tells Android's Linux kernel to toughen up and fight off those horrible hacker bullies
Re: Patching speed is probably the issue
You seem to have pulled that 90% figure out of your arse.
These changes are fir Android N. The reality is, you are only likely to see this stuff in a new phone, or a Nexus. Your old phone will get security patches for its existing version of Android.
Security is an evolutionary thing, just because there is new techniques to beef up security, doesn't mean your current device is insecure (Android is very secure in reality), its Google keeping ahead of the curve, securing FUTURE products, when you buy your next phone.
Cortana expelled from Windows 10's new school editions
Linus Torvalds in sweary rant about punctuation in kernel comments
Android Mew-ware, I choose you: Code nasty poses as Pokemon GO
Huge double boxset of Android patches lands after Qualcomm disk encryption blown open
Gigabyte BIOS blight fright: Your megabytes’ rewrite plight in the spotlight
Tor torpedoed! Tesco Bank app won't run with privacy tool installed
Re: Security risk?
Rooting is absolutely a security risk. Things can occur in the background unknown to you. Ask yourself for a moment, what random tools did you download from the internet to root your phone, did you personally compile them yourself after auditing and u derstsbding what they did.... I think not....
Microsoft splashes Virtual Reality-slinging 'Scorpio' Xbox
Get ready for Google's proprietary Android. It's coming – analyst
You've got a patch, you've got a patch ... almost every Android device has a patch
Re: Weurd
That was my point. 90% of the world's smartphones are android powered, and where are all the malware infested devices?? Will billion of devices, android devices are now more common than windows PCs.
Nada, nothing seen in the wild, all I see is news about potential exploits, not real world actual exploits..
I think there is a word for this, it begins with S and your post gets rejected if you mention it..
Weurd
"get patching – if you can – because you can be sure miscreants will be finding new ways to exploit these programming cockups. ®"
Never ever seen or heard of a single exploited android vulnerability in the wild, which given the 1.8bn android devices, seems odd..What gives????
Ironically a day doesn't go by when I dont see malware infested windows devices. Android seems to be made out to be the windows of the mobile world. However android is vastly more secure.
Microsoft sells 1,500 patents to Chinese mega-phone biz Xiaomi
$10bn Oracle v Google copyright jury verdict: Google wins, Java APIs in Android are Fair Use
Ad-slinger Opera adds ad-blocking tech to its browser
Re: Eh?
You might have forgotten how badly presto worked on the modern web. Go back and install it and visit some complex sites, and then understand WHY opera NEEDED to adopt blink. Websites working is far more important than being able to edit an ini file to make a toolbar appear in a different place.
I really hope you don't work in engineering...