Comments on: Malicious Apps in the Android Market http://futureoftheinternet.org/malicious-apps-in-the-android-market Jonathan Zittrain is Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and co-founder of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School Fri, 30 Jul 2010 06:25:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Nick Taylor http://futureoftheinternet.org/malicious-apps-in-the-android-market/comment-page-1#comment-17104 Nick Taylor Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:45:47 +0000 http://futureoftheinternet.org/?p=1093#comment-17104 This comes with the terrain - but the alternative is corporate ownership of the root... which is worse. Remember the Palladium scare back in the 00s? When Microsoft was going to build its DRM in at the hardware level so you'd have to ask MS for permission to run anything? Remember the Sony rootkit fiasco... where Sony attempted to infect its customers PCs with a virus taking control of the root when they played a Sony CD? Well Apple have built this functionality in. They've taken something that was too evil for even Microsoft to get away with, and they've copied it. So um... I'll live with the risk of rogue apps. Any day. This comes with the terrain – but the alternative is corporate ownership of the root… which is worse.

Remember the Palladium scare back in the 00s? When Microsoft was going to build its DRM in at the hardware level so you’d have to ask MS for permission to run anything?

Remember the Sony rootkit fiasco… where Sony attempted to infect its customers PCs with a virus taking control of the root when they played a Sony CD?

Well Apple have built this functionality in. They’ve taken something that was too evil for even Microsoft to get away with, and they’ve copied it.

So um… I’ll live with the risk of rogue apps. Any day.

]]> By: Bertil Hatt http://futureoftheinternet.org/malicious-apps-in-the-android-market/comment-page-1#comment-17088 Bertil Hatt Tue, 12 Jan 2010 02:05:42 +0000 http://futureoftheinternet.org/?p=1093#comment-17088 What really upsets me about all that is that the future of an Opened Mobile App ecology depends on journalists having something to say or being bored the day someone looses money in this kind of scam, and whether that person is cute-for-TV or not… Let's hope that Google's spam- & phising-detection algos will save us from this long enough for people to adopt the tech. What really upsets me about all that is that the future of an Opened Mobile App ecology depends on journalists having something to say or being bored the day someone looses money in this kind of scam, and whether that person is cute-for-TV or not… Let’s hope that Google’s spam- & phising-detection algos will save us from this long enough for people to adopt the tech.

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