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World-writable memory on Samsung Android phonesWorld-writable memory on Samsung Android phonesPosted Dec 18, 2012 13:07 UTC (Tue) by clump (subscriber, #27801)In reply to: World-writable memory on Samsung Android phones by oever Parent article: World-writable memory on Samsung Android phones
Nevertheles, when it comes to Android security, you have to concur that more thought was put into security on Android than on (GNU/)Linux. On Android each application runs as a separate user. On Linux, this is not the case. In fact: every application can read all user files and dial home as much as it likes.Except that of course you know Android is Linux. You're also neglecting to mention MAC/SELinux which allows very fine grained containment of more than just applications. I you want a secure Linux distribution you can have it. Whether many distributions care to take advantage of SELinux, capabilities, sandboxing, etc, is a different story. The abysmal security of Android's typical "Play" store application should give anyone pause.
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World-writable memory on Samsung Android phones Posted Dec 18, 2012 15:57 UTC (Tue) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link] The abysmal security of Android's typical "Play" store application should give anyone pause. What "abysmal security" are you talking about? Compared to the alternatives it's nirvana. Yes, some trojans are out there and there are a lot of articles which discuss this problem, but most regular users only hear about problems from such articles. Windows, MacOS - these are significantly worse and even Linux has pitiful track record once you go beyond the repos. The only alternatives which are kind-of-better are iOS and Kindle - and somehow I don't think LWN subscriber considers iOS and Kindle a good things to promote.
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