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boswd · 05-20-2011, 11:01 AM

apparently it isn't an Android specific flaw, but the Apple biased media sure seemed to have led us to believe it was though.

"The story is getting a lot of attention because it was noticed on Android, but it’s not, in fact, an Android vulnerability. It’s a security bug in any program that does not encrypt its authorization tokens"

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/burnette/t...?tag=mncol;txt

and besides the Google already fixed theirs. But this can happen on any wifi device. Not Android specific.

05-20-2011, 11:01 AM	#2
boswd Banned Posts: 2,391 Karma: 1001781 Join Date: May 2010 Device: The Nook, Nook color and Droid X	apparently it isn't an Android specific flaw, but the Apple biased media sure seemed to have led us to believe it was though. "The story is getting a lot of attention because it was noticed on Android, but it’s not, in fact, an Android vulnerability. It’s a security bug in any program that does not encrypt its authorization tokens" http://www.zdnet.com/blog/burnette/t...?tag=mncol;txt and besides the Google already fixed theirs. But this can happen on any wifi device. Not Android specific.