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Google removes 22 app scams
#1
I guess they don't test all the apps before they release them like appl. You knew it was going to happen. AHOLES

Google has removed 22 so-called “RuFraud” apps from its Android Market after it was discovered they could jack phones into sending out expensive text messages, the BBC reported Wednesday.

http://blogs.marketwatch.com/thetell/201...app-scams/
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#2
i'm not worried.
If that's all they do (or can do) I'd spot it in a heart beat and stop it. Further, most of us have unlimited text messaging. No harm/no foul.
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#3
Driod is great, but you do have to worry about what the apps are really doing in the background. How many people use their phone like a laptop anymore. Accessing PayPal, bank accounts, eBay, Facebook, etc. Put a keylogger into a popular app and the knowledge becomes cash for the hackers. Apple may be strict, but there has not been a breach like that with their OS. The worst was their own software keeping tower information for service diagnostics which was later claimed to be a privacy issue due to how much data it stored.
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(12-15-2011, 09:55 PM)Admin Wrote: Driod is great, but you do have to worry about what the apps are really doing in the background. How many people use their phone like a laptop anymore. Accessing PayPal, bank accounts, eBay, Facebook, etc. Put a keylogger into a popular app and the knowledge becomes cash for the hackers. Apple may be strict, but there has not been a breach like that with their OS. The worst was their own software keeping tower information for service diagnostics which was later claimed to be a privacy issue due to how much data it stored.

I just saw it on the yahoo finance page and passed it on as a public service announcement. If anyone had them to alert you. Nothing else here makes sense since I STILL don't have a smart phone. I did see a new Iphone in a target ad for $155 I'm fighting real bad and have til Saturday to get it.

I thought EVERYBODY used their phone like a laptop to access the net. It always bothered me you guys talking about having to restore your phones and I'm NOT up for that hassle.

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#5
I have a android phone for work and looking though apps there is a pulse reader that apparently uses the phones camera to read your pulse.. figured I'd give it a try. anyway it wanted access to EVERYTHING on your phone. I was like uhh no..
Lots of suspicious apps out there..
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#6
i have th epulse reader. It's cool but a real battery drainer.
Most of those warnings about what the app is accessing is way over stated. But honestly, dont do anything on your phone you need to protect. period.
I have banking apps for my 2 banks but have them "just in case" I have yet to use them.
Jonathan Charles Axisa, my beloved son, 11/7/1979 - 7/8/2010

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#7
ANyone hear about CarrierIQ?
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/12...q-ftc-fcc/
http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenber...-of-cases/

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