99% of Android Phones Vulnerable to Data Leak; Google Working on Quick Fix

[cryogenic]

[citation][nom]ThisIsMe[/nom]...Today Company X failed to imagine this one scenario that left users vulnerable when this one thing that COULD happen if some bad people ....[/citation]

Sending authentication tokens using plain HTTP, is not an imagination fail, it's a BIG EFING security fail. You learn this kind of stuff in the security kinder garden. Big fail Google! Big Fail sending authentication info on unsecured channels.

You really can't get any more basic than this when it comes to security, plain ans simple: don't send sensitive information over non secured channels.

 

[Houndsteeth]

The difference?

With Apple, you are the customer, and their phone is their product.

With Google, you are the product and their customer is every company out there that would like to know just about anything about you.

Don't be evil, Google. Please don't be evil.

 

[fir_ser]

[citation][nom]macewrox[/nom]Apple: Hey we have a new product for you.Applelover: Oh yeah?! What's new about it?Apple: Don't worry about that. It's new.Applelover: What? Oh okay.Apple: You don't want to be left in the past now do you? Come on..Applelover: How much?Apple: How much you got?Applelover: My life savings.Apple: I'll take it.[/citation]
LOL

 

[fir_ser]

Hope Google doesn’t have some serious vulnerabilities in its cloud, so we don’t have to hear about another hacked users data such as the recent PSN hack.

 

[fir_ser]

[citation][nom]Houndsteeth[/nom]The difference?With Apple, you are the customer, and their phone is their product.With Google, you are the product and their customer is every company out there that would like to know just about anything about you.Don't be evil, Google. Please don't be evil.[/citation]
Very true.

 

[Guest]

Hence this is why my corporation will never standardize on mobile platforms like android.