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Re: Google power over Android
From: "Stanclift, Michael" <michael.stanclift () ROCKHURST EDU>
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 15:27:31 -0500
You can look at it maliciously, but they already have the power to do OTA updates, and I think the intent of the remote install is to issue security updates to the OS and other apps. My thinking is Apple has the same ability and I wouldn't be shocked to see something similar come out of Microsoft as well with Windows Mobile 7. In the case of this remote removal, they removed an application that (while only for research) accessed areas of the phone it shouldn't have. Michael Stanclift | Network Analyst | Computer Services Rockhurst University | 1100 Rockhurst Road, Kansas City, MO 64110 Phone: 816.501.4231 | Fax: 816.501.4014 | http://help.rockhurst.edu Help keep our campus green, think before you print! RUCS will never ask you for your password! -----Original Message----- From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of randy marchany Sent: Monday, June 28, 2010 3:06 PM To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU Subject: [SECURITY] Google power over Android Something sinister about this statement: "Google has the power to not only remove applications from users' Android phones, but remotely install them as well." http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/28/google_remote_android_application_install/ Guess we have to start re-evaluating our smart phone initiatives...... -Randy Marchany VA Tech IT Security Office & Lab.
Current thread:
- Google power over Android randy marchany (Jun 28)
- Re: Google power over Android Stanclift, Michael (Jun 28)
- Re: Google power over Android Jones, Dan (Jun 28)
- Re: Google power over Android Charles Seitz (Jun 28)
- Re: Google power over Android Adam Carlson (Jun 28)
- Re: Google ps over Androidj ib Nick Gagliardi (Jun 29)
- Re: Google ps over Androidj ib randy marchany (Jun 29)
- Re: Google ps over Androidj ib Ozzie Paez (Jun 29)
- Re: Google ps over Androidj ib Doty, Timothy T. (Jun 29)
- Re: Google ps over Androidj ib Russell Fulton (Jun 29)
- Re: Google ps over Androidj ib Nick Gagliardi (Jun 29)
- Re: Google power over Android Dexter Caldwell (Jun 29)
- Re: Google power over Android Ozzie Paez (Jun 29)