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The Tech Industry Is Getting Ridiculous
An anonymous reader writes "Columnist Jon Evans points out that the tech industry has been slowly getting stranger over the past several years. When you look at the headlines individually, they all seem to make sense, but putting them together and trying to imagine them popping up a decade ago really illustrates how odd it has become. Quoting: 'In Japan, some half-billion dollars' worth of cryptocurrency vanished from a site founded to trade Magic: The Gathering cards. In New Zealand, the world's greatest Call of Duty player has launched a political party to revenge himself on those who had him arrested and seized his sports cars. In Britain, the secret service is busy collecting and watching homegrown porn. Here in Silicon Valley, mighty Apple just revealed that a flagrant, basic programming error gutted the security of all its devices for years. Google, "more wood behind fewer arrows" Google, now has its own navy, to go with its air force and robot army.'"
Nice try, but the Android master key vulnerability was nowhere near the level of fuckup of the Apple SSL bug. It's basically impossible to do anything useful with the Android bug, for a start.
Thanks for the compliment, but that's a terrible effort on your part. The Android bug affects virtually ALL Android devices today, it allows malicious code to be surreptitiously inserted in apps made available outside Google Play, and most Android handsets in existence today will never be patched for it. If you wondered why, among millions of other Android devices, yours got infected, this bug was likely the reason.
Now tell us how many iOS 7 devices got compromised by the SSL bug (which has existed for months, not years), and tell us how many devices running iOS 7 can't be patched. (Hint: zero)