Dark Side Arises for Phone Apps(online.wsj.com)

7 pointsby pier0vor 16 Jahren3 comments

online.wsj.com

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703340904575284532175834088.html

3 comments

adbgevor 16 Jahren

> The apps were more useless than malicious, but could have been updated to capture customers' banking credentials, said John Hering, chief executive of Lookout, a mobile security provider.

Seems like more fearmongering aimed at Google's open market. The article reads like "open == insecure" and subtly implies that Apple's market is too open. Um, what?

nfnaaronvor 16 Jahren

Would you buy a bank app from an app store? I think I'd rather get the app directly from my bank. On the other hand, I'm having trouble reconciling that last statement with Quicken downloading data from my bank; I didn't get Quicken from my bank.

zitterbewegungvor 16 Jahren

Maybe now is the time for systems that audit and protect phones possibly?