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Google Has Android Remote App Install Power, Too
Trailrunner7 writes "The remote-wipe capability that Google recently invoked to remove a harmless application from some Android phones isn't the only remote control feature that the company built into its mobile OS. It turns out that Android also includes a feature that enables Google to remotely install apps on users' phones as well. Jon Oberheide, the security researcher who developed the application that Google remotely removed from Android phones, noticed during his research that the Android OS includes a feature called INSTALL_ASSET that allows Google to remotely install applications on users' phones. 'I don't know what design decision they based that on. Maybe they just figured since they had the removal mechanism, it's easy to have the install mechanism too,' Oberheide said in an interview. 'I don't know if they've used it yet.'"
Foxdie program continues
You're clueless.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
but does it have gay hippos?
back in time machine i first posted this gay hippo post!
@MikeDaSpike
I know this is against Slashdot rules, but maybe you should read at least the summary before posting and then you might notice that the entire post is about being able to ADD software to your phone. The news about being able to remove software was some time ago.
As in having an outside company not the user adding apps etc.
It's one thing to remove software/info/data from a users phone, but to be able to just add any software/info/data to a users phone is a totally different concept.
How does an off-topic reply that misses the point of the topic totally get modded "interesting" ?
This is not twitter.
How can I be sure of this?
We can tell that you are replying to MikeDaSpike because you pressed the Reply to This button under his post and so your post shows up in the thread below his.
Not necessarily. If a comment isn't one of the 25 (or 50 for logged-in users who have increased this) highest scored comments to an article, it is removed from the thread until the user clicks "124 More". Because a lot of people who read Slashdot comments appear to confuse replies to a not-downloaded post with replies to the post's parent, I have taken to formatting replies to Score:0 posts like e-mail replies, starting with "Anonymous Coward wrote:" before the first <quote> element.