With the continued wave of computer hacking in the news – one would hope that there are some people (among the unwashed masses as the saying goes) that are thinking, ‘what if all of this malicious activity were put to / focused on more upstanding purposes?’ Granted, that sounds idealistic but there’s always room for more idealism in the world – at any given time – (and the application thereof) in many people’s collective opinion.
Now back to reality: perhaps it is befitting that the non-official Android market in the PRC is host to a lot of bogus apps that are nothing more than hosts for viruses that unsuspecting end-users download to their handsets? Perhaps not? Whatever the case; apparently it is not that difficult to create and upload a Trojan within Google’s OS – which is certainly one of the downsides of being ‘open’ as it’s already a daily occurrence / negative reality and the enclosed article in all probability just might have accelerated the incidence of the aforementioned…
From PC Mag: http://bit.ly/l6awCl