Google: Exercising Our Remote Application Removal Feature

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Monty Solomon <monty () roscom com>
Date: June 28, 2010 10:54:48 PM EDT
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Subject: Google: Exercising Our Remote Application Removal Feature


Exercising Our Remote Application Removal Feature

Posted by Tim Bray on 23 June 2010 at 10:35 PM

[This post is by Rich Cannings, Android Security Lead. - Tim Bray]

Every now and then, we remove applications from Android Market due to 
violations of our Android Market Developer Distribution Agreement or 
Content Policy. In cases where users may have installed a malicious 
application that poses a threat, we've also developed technologies 
and processes to remotely remove an installed application from 
devices. If an application is removed in this way, users will receive 
a notification on their phone.

Recently, we became aware of two free applications built by a 
security researcher for research purposes. These applications 
intentionally misrepresented their purpose in order to encourage user 
downloads, but they were not designed to be used maliciously, and did 
not have permission to access private data - or system resources 
beyond permission.INTERNET. As the applications were practically 
useless, most users uninstalled the applications shortly after 
downloading them.

After the researcher voluntarily removed these applications from 
Android Market, we decided, per the Android Market Terms of Service, 
to exercise our remote application removal feature on the remaining 
installed copies to complete the cleanup.

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http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/06/exercising-our-remote-application.html





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