At the PwnFest hacking competition in Seoul on Friday, “The Google Pixel fell to a team of Chinese hackers,” Darren Pauli reports for The Register.
“Google will now work on a patch for the flaw,” Pauli reports. “It was the second time in as many weeks that the Pixel has been compromised.”
“The first still-unpatched zero day was developed by Qihoo 360 rival Keen Team of Tencent at the Mobile Pwn2Own event in Japan,” Pauli reports. “Hackers there showcased the exploit at the PwnFest hacking event in Seoul today showing how they could compromise all aspects of the phone including contacts, photos, messages, and phone calls.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Google’s Android. “Open” (in all the wrong ways).
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I can accept “open in all the wrong ways”, but at least it’s not censored.
I what way is iOS open at all?
Apple has never said that their iOS is open.
They also never said it wasn’t censored.
No OS is immune from faults, but it seems from casual reads of tech announcements that Android has maybe 5-10 times as many faults as Android.
This “Open” movement is great if you are designing systems yourself.
But if you are a normal user, that is hardly what you want on your devices where you expect them to work 100% of the time.
Privacy is rather more important than ‘open’ which in reality means little in practice except to geeks who just can’t keep their hands away from their crutch. Even Microsoft has learnt that, it appears a lot of its cretinous former acolytes just can’t get the message however and turn to trolling to feed their bitterness.
Microsoft, as bad as they’ve been, has never, to this day, ever forbidden an application.
Privacy is rather more important than ‘open’ …
To you, and I respect that. No one is forcing you to shop outside the App Store, even if you had another choice.
It extends to content as well, but applications that are prevented from being sold or given to me is still inhibiting speech, and thus is censorship.
Some people are thoughtful and considerate about what they say and where they say it and to whom they say it. Free speech does not come for free though, it must be counterbalanced by an equal or even stronger sense of RESPONSIBILITY. Unfortunately, there are many people who think that they can say anything or do anything they want regardless of how it hurts others. A responsible person might say to themselves that although they have the right to say anything they want, they will consider the audience and whether they want to hear your opinion.
Apple has chosen to support the higher nature of mankind and not pander to our lower animal nature.
And by which democratic process is “our lower animal nature” determined?
You can say that Apple is not a democracy, to which I wholeheartedly agree. Why are you defending non-democratic inhibition of speech?
Oh . . . you might start with a review of English Common Law principles and a meaningful romp through the whys and wherenots surrounding the Magna Carta — once you wrap your head around that way of thinking and understanding of human nature, a trip through the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights should be next on your bucket list — don’t forget an unforgettable side-trip to the Declaration of Independence, authored by the then English-American colonists, for an enligntening glimpse into the poignant aspects and preferred desires of humans interacting with other humans.
Just a suggestion . . .
Niffy
And after reading all that, censorship is what you got out of it…
“No OS is immune from faults, but it seems from casual reads of tech announcements that Android has maybe 5-10 times as many faults as Android.”
Huh? Android has more faults than Android? This circular illogic doesn’t make sense.
Not true at all… has always been curated
First of all, the only time I hear “curated” is from an Apple fan, not Apple themselves.
Secondly the App Store “curation” gets elevated to full blown censorship of the entire OS, since it’s the only allowed store. When the user/owner can curate to their own criteria, only then is it not censorship.
I suppose looking out for the wellbeing of good people, dignity and respect, is a form of censorship. It’s a lot like common sense. You don’t yell fire in the theater, you don’t let children unfettered access to the evils of the world, and Apple is curating “censoring” the App Store, because it’s not a platform of free speech. It’s a platform of information and entertainment access, which the content is not censored. Just the programming code, as you see, can be harmful to your device and PI.
You’ve just described a benevolent dictatorship…
Anybody read the article?
Apple’s updated Safari browser running on MacOS Sierra also fell. Respected Chinese hacker outfit Pangu Team renowned for releasing million-dollar persistent modern iOS jailbreaks for free, along with hacker JH, blasted Cupertino’s web browser with a root privilege escalation zero day that took 20 seconds to run, earning the team $80,000.