How are you transferring information to those services?
No one can replace the android system services since they reside in
services.jar which is on /system. Hence, not possible to spoof these
services and steal your information.

-Earlence

On Aug 4, 5:15 pm, Patrick Vicens <[email protected]> wrote:
> They would need to produce a fake service on the phone with the exact name
> of the service to replace it.  I know during some of our research we
> basically did a quick upload of a service manually to the phone (flashed the
> service onto the phone with a card)  that replaced the service.  The
> replaced service included extra features like tie-ins for text messaging and
> such.  I forget but I do believe there is a method in the base OS for
> encryption, might be worth looking into.
>
> On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Narendran <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > Can someone please take it. I couldn't find any doc or blog around
> > that.
>
> > On Aug 3, 2:22 pm, Narendran <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > I'm developing an app which is passing some confidential info to a few
> > > services (WifiManager and AccountManager to be precise) in plaintext
> > > form. Can someone please let me know how easy or difficult it is for
> > > hacking the Context of an app and spoof these services? I'm
> > > essentially looking at avoiding information disclosure attack in my
> > > app.
>
> > > And also, is there any recommended best practice in Java/Android world
> > > when it comes to handling user's confidential data in your app. I was
> > > looking for something like .NET's SecureString equivalent,  but
> > > couldn't find any yet.
>
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> > > Thanks
> > > Narendran
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