“The study, undertaken by Coverity, revealed 359 flaws, with 25 per cent of of them being ranked as ‘high risk.’This ranking meant they were likely to cause a security breach or crash a device running the operating system,” Scott reports. “Andy Chou, chief scientist and co-founder of Coverity, said… ‘a significant number of these defects are the high risk types that our customers typically fix before shipping their products to market.’”
Scott reports, “Chou said the aim of the report was to give the makers of the software a chance to fix things before they became a problem but the Android study was of Froyo, which is already shipping in a number of mobile devices.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Have fun with your mobile banking, iPhone have-nots!
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dan B.” for the heads up.]
At the end, the only thing that matters is how safe is your data and your identity, how you get there is in the details. Apple seems to be better positioned than Android, that is for sure, wall garden or not.
There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply. – Josh Billings
Well obviously not for some…
It isn’t fruitful to go NAH! NAH! at Android when iOS has its own flaws. iOS v4.2 has already been jailbroken, before it was released to the public.
Android has the benefit of having an Open Source community who may, or may not, fix all the flaws. Open Source tends to have a better record of fixing security problems than proprietary software. Have no doubt that this fact has BENEFITTED Apple, whose core OS for Mac OS X and iOS is also Open Source.
What will continue to plague Android, after presumably these hundreds of flaws are patched, will be the ‘anything goes’ nature of its applications. None of it is vetted. Any of it could be infested with malware. No doubt Apple’s vetting is not perfect. But so far Apple has been extremely successful at keeping iOS safe, whereas Android has not.
So sorry Google trolls.
MDN
You could have done better. The ‘full article’
sucks. Out of “Nearly 100 ‘high risk’ flaws
found in Android OS” , the article lists zero,
nada,zilch,0.
Thanks so much for this! This is exactly what I was looking for.
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