HTC Android handsets spew private data to ANY app

2011-10-04 Thread sara fink
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/03/htc_android_security/ ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: HTC Android handsets spew private data to ANY app

2011-10-04 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
2011/10/4 sara fink sara.f...@gmail.com: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/03/htc_android_security/ Hold your breath: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/04/htc_security_fix/ ;-) -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmidt.org ___ Linux-il mailing

Re: HTC Android handsets spew private data to ANY app

2011-10-04 Thread sara fink
Nice. But see this comment: the question is not how long for a fix (although tht's important), it's... #http://forums.theregister.co.uk/post/1190903 Why -and when - did HTC decide to log user activity? Surely that's a breach of privacy? On the other hand, if this is a package that provides user

[OT] Re: HTC Android handsets spew private data to ANY app

2011-10-04 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
NB: marked [OT] in subject, I believe in conformance with an earlier discussion on Android topics on Linux-IL (that I am too lazy to dig up a link to in the archives). On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 6:29 PM, sara fink sara.f...@gmail.com wrote: Why -and when - did HTC decide to log user activity?