<story><title>The mother of all Android malware has arrived</title><url>http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/03/01/the-mother-of-all-android-malware-has-arrived-stolen-apps-released-to-the-market-that-root-your-phone-steal-your-data-and-open-backdoor/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JacobAldridge</author><text>&quot;I demand a walled garden, and I will gladly pay 30% to ensure all apps are reviewed, approved, and subject to the whims of the closed-shop store providing them.&quot;&lt;p&gt;This is obviously a serious issue - as the OP notes, the double-edged sword of openness. Still, the speedy response of Google makes me feel warmer than the (not-so-common now) decidely un-speedy application process Apple put many developers through.&lt;p&gt;Edit: As jevans points out in response, and others have noted in this discussion, Google&apos;s 5 minute response time might be better characterised as &apos;1 week of sitting on their hands when the developers complained, and 1 rapid response when it went public in a loud way&apos;.&lt;p&gt;I&apos;m feeling less warm now, and looking fondly at the non-smartphone Nokia I own which is so clearly targeted at the 11-year-old-girl&apos;s-first-phone market that it came inside a pink cardboard handbag. But has no malware.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jevans</author><text>I&apos;m not sure I would qualify Google&apos;s response as &quot;speedy.&quot; On the Reddit thread, the developer of the real Guitar Solo Lite claims to have been attempting to contact Google about this issue through various channels for a week with no response. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/fvepu/someone_just_ripped_off_21_popular_free_apps_from/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/fvepu/someone_just_...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>The mother of all Android malware has arrived</title><url>http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/03/01/the-mother-of-all-android-malware-has-arrived-stolen-apps-released-to-the-market-that-root-your-phone-steal-your-data-and-open-backdoor/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JacobAldridge</author><text>&quot;I demand a walled garden, and I will gladly pay 30% to ensure all apps are reviewed, approved, and subject to the whims of the closed-shop store providing them.&quot;&lt;p&gt;This is obviously a serious issue - as the OP notes, the double-edged sword of openness. Still, the speedy response of Google makes me feel warmer than the (not-so-common now) decidely un-speedy application process Apple put many developers through.&lt;p&gt;Edit: As jevans points out in response, and others have noted in this discussion, Google&apos;s 5 minute response time might be better characterised as &apos;1 week of sitting on their hands when the developers complained, and 1 rapid response when it went public in a loud way&apos;.&lt;p&gt;I&apos;m feeling less warm now, and looking fondly at the non-smartphone Nokia I own which is so clearly targeted at the 11-year-old-girl&apos;s-first-phone market that it came inside a pink cardboard handbag. But has no malware.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>S_A_P</author><text>Would be nice to find some middle ground here for sure.  Seems to me that this is only starting to become a serious issue.  This also seems to be a much easier route than finding 0 day Flaws on a PC, and while most folks would think twice about installing software from the back alleys of the internet, they may not feel that way about android.(yet)</text></comment>