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Researcher To Release Web-Based Android Attack
CWmike writes "A computer security researcher says he plans to release code Thursday that could be used to attack some versions of Google's Android phones over the Internet. The attack targets the browser in older, Android 2.1-and-earlier versions of the phones. It is being disclosed Thursday at the HouSecCon conference by M.J. Keith, a security researcher with Alert Logic. Keith says he has written code that allows him to run a simple command line shell in Android (video) when the victim visits a website that contains his attack code. The bug used in Keith's attack lies in the WebKit browser engine used by Android. Google said it knows about the vulnerability. 'We're aware of an issue in WebKit that could potentially impact only old versions of the Android browser,' Google spokesman Jay Nancarrow confirmed in an e-mail. 'The issue does not affect Android 2.2 or later versions.' Version 2.2 runs on 36.2 percent of Android phones, Google says"
"A computer security researcher says he plans to release code Thursday that could be used to attack some versions of Google's Android phones over the Internet. The attack targets the browser in older, Android 2.1-and-earlier versions of the phones.
How can he be permitted to release something, which when used as intended, does harm to others? This is insane...and he does it "in the light of day!"
Other tools that folks have used to harm others have dual use...but for this code, I do not see any use save for harm. What am I missing?
what about the percent on versions above 2.2?
Dude, it's Android. You can download it from Google. Quit being lazy.
P.S. - Obammy is Hillary's cabana boy. Any of you bitches still glad you voted for that inexperienced no-nothing in the primary instead of Hillary? LOL, I just listened to Donald Trump calling all of our elected officials idiots for sending jobs out of the country and then not understanding why they can't get the unemployment rate down. He's right. They're a bunch of mongoloid douchebags - the whole fucking lot of them. Especially that cunt Nancy Pelosi. Has she been running the House from Mars, because she seems COMPLETELY detached from reality?
why do you cower? what are you afraid of?
you're completely pathetic.
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My girlfriend is an AC. Help me reclaim my girlfriend. Are you my girlfriend?
If I don't like your girlfriend does that make me a sexist?
Even if it does, Thank God I'm not that fucking douche bag named Michael Kristopeit. It must take a tiny little micropenis to want to maintain that many Slashdot accounts. I guess he sets them all to notify on a message reply by e-mail and sends them all to the same e-mail address, else he'd never keep track of them all. You really have to feel sorry for him. He's the strongest argument for pro-choice that I know of. I'd call him a cunt but at least a vagina has useful purposes. I'd call him a piece of shit but a turd is capable of fertilizing a plant and therefore has a useful purpose. I really don't know what to call him. He's just a worthless sock-puppet cunt registering piece of useless shit. That's putting it mildly.