Submitted by “The Lookout Security Team has identified a new variant of DroidDream Light found in the Android Market, which Google already removed from the Android Market. Fortunately the malware was available in the Android Market for a short period of time so the number of downloads was limited to 1000 – 5000. This is the third iteration of malware likely created by the authors of DroidDream; the first was discovered in early March (the original DroidDream) and the second in early June (DroidDream Light).”
From Google: We’re so sorry to 1000 to 5000 people who got this malware, we’ll not do any better at keeping it out next time.
The joys of a reactive market place…
This was submitted by our favourite Apple sock puppet jennimc as another futile attempted attack on Android.
Ya because this site would never over populate news headlines with content against a specific company.
Yeah well that’s what you get when you get a bunch of geeks together and give them a patent troll.
Corrected:
Yeah well that’s what you get when you get a bunch of geeks together and give them some patent thieves.
Edited 2011-07-17 16:38 UTC
I can imagine it:
An old and eerie house. Dead of night. A shadow swoops from one dark corner to another. Navigating the corridors to the safe with the patents, while dodging the lasers and security installations… The thief opens the safe and at that time the lights go ON! The thief takes off his mask.
Oh, No! The thief is Tux!
the scene ends on a stare-off between Tux and apple-borg.
What a load of nonsense.
Can somebody explain to me how one goes about stealing a patent?
Don’t attack the messenger on this one.
I would have submitted it as well. And I develop for Android.
I love android and don’t read much into this stuff.
Although lately I’m feeling a dark cloud starting to hang over its head.
Google’s is powerlessly sitting by while Microsoft and Apple are trying to smother its competition.
It’s all about their IP pool that has seen a huge bump and powerful tie-ups in the last year.
The one thing columnist always refer to is Google’s lack of intellectual property compared to Google.
Cnet has as far as stated that Google is in a Legal siege.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20050404-264.html
This is especially made worse in the last 12 months by the Nokia Microsoft Phone partnership. Nokia probably has the most important related mobile patents.
The significant portfolio of Nortel patents has also gone to a Microsoft and Apple led consortium.
Ericson is the other big patent holder but Microsoft and Sony is starting to work closer and closer together.
One example is the latest web domains registered by Microsoft.
http://www.engadget.com/2011/07/15/microsoft-snatches-up-a-pair-of-…
Google is trying to ramp up its IP dept.
Lots of jobs are advertised to enlarge this dept.
One below one of many.
http://www.google.com/intl/kn/jobs/uslocations/mountain-view/legal/…
Google’s latest financial income rose to $2.54 Billion.
It’s a lot and will help to buy more IP..But will this be enough to compete against Apple-Microsoft?
They will need more money and partnerships…but who?
Maybe tie in’s with other companies like Facebook?
It has a strange relationship with face book. They’re sometimes partner up in Washington in patent reform lobby.
They regularly ban its other plug-in ect. (Facebook)..Ad sense controversy) and other type of things.
Google and Facebook) together with the Linux consortium and country involvement. Maybe China should get involved.
They’re country basically own much of the world cash capital with their more of 50% per citizen savings rates. They’re the biggest lender and creditor of the US and own if I correctly remember the world’s largest gold reserve.
Countries sometimes buy up patents for instance France.
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110609/09021214636/french-govern…
That just shows how much the big Linux defenders care about their statements, since there are a lot of patents asserted against core Linux.
The Nortel patents aren’t a done deal yet, but when it does it could spell more trouble for Google.
Android uses a Linux kernel and is diversified through different hardware manufacturers. If a Linux distro were to open up its doors beyond the controlled repository to “app stores”, then the same risk most certainly would exist on the Desktop.
Users should take note of this, since the implications can go beyond mobile phones and tablets. Do not go with the app store model unless there is an oversight system in place to test and validate the code submitted. The same steps of validation should be taken for both free and paid apps.
There have been 3rd party repositories since the time 1st party repositories existed. Some contained signed packages, some don’t. This risk has existed for more than a decade, it is not greater than it has ever been.
App stores seem to be different. Unlike repositories where packages are sponsored by a maintainer with write access to the versioning system of choice, app stores apparently allow random binaries from random developers.
3rd part repositories, EPEL for example, have a reputation, import source, and build. The Android market does not compare to this process for better or worse, hence its ability to produces tens of thousands of packages over the short lifespan that it has.