Comments on: paranoid android ? http://www.manojganesan.com/2008/09/18/paranoid-android/ It is no use to keep private information which you can't show off - Mark Twain Fri, 29 Apr 2011 18:25:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Manoj http://www.manojganesan.com/2008/09/18/paranoid-android/comment-page-1/#comment-65 Manoj Sat, 20 Sep 2008 17:05:57 +0000 http://monesblog.wordpress.com/?p=98#comment-65 Cell phone = thing of the past Mobile/Internet communications device = new fad ... :P Cell phone = thing of the past
Mobile/Internet communications device = new fad … :P

]]> By: Ashwin http://www.manojganesan.com/2008/09/18/paranoid-android/comment-page-1/#comment-63 Ashwin Sat, 20 Sep 2008 05:22:35 +0000 http://monesblog.wordpress.com/?p=98#comment-63 I maintain.... The cell phone was made for 2 reasons - 1. talk 2. poplulation control (I am sure you read the front page TOI article about 4 years back...:D) Anything above and beyond that is an unecessary complication of the system. Ah, if only it wasnt for these materialistic pleasures of life...:D I maintain….
The cell phone was made for 2 reasons –
1. talk
2. poplulation control (I am sure you read the front page TOI article about 4 years back…:D)

Anything above and beyond that is an unecessary complication of the system. Ah, if only it wasnt for these materialistic pleasures of life…:D

]]> By: Manoj http://www.manojganesan.com/2008/09/18/paranoid-android/comment-page-1/#comment-61 Manoj Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:31:43 +0000 http://monesblog.wordpress.com/?p=98#comment-61 I had heard of that before, and thought of it as a no-brainer then and not worth thinking too much about. Almost all browsers have the option of saving by default to a certain location, without prompting. You still need 2 clicks, the "download" and the "run". Agreed that you could potentially just click on run when the file appears as download, but that's the same everywhere. Just because it's more easy to do things in Chrome probably makes it a little easier to be exposed to a situation like this. I won't call this a security vulnerability ... you could still potentially download something automatically to your desktop (with the option set) and execute that malware. Nothing new about that ... I had heard of that before, and thought of it as a no-brainer then and not worth thinking too much about. Almost all browsers have the option of saving by default to a certain location, without prompting. You still need 2 clicks, the “download” and the “run”. Agreed that you could potentially just click on run when the file appears as download, but that’s the same everywhere. Just because it’s more easy to do things in Chrome probably makes it a little easier to be exposed to a situation like this. I won’t call this a security vulnerability … you could still potentially download something automatically to your desktop (with the option set) and execute that malware. Nothing new about that …

]]> By: Amol Dharap http://www.manojganesan.com/2008/09/18/paranoid-android/comment-page-1/#comment-60 Amol Dharap Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:24:29 +0000 http://monesblog.wordpress.com/?p=98#comment-60 Have u seen http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1843 ? Have u seen http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1843 ?

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