Do you have an Android phone? Do you buy apps from Amazon? Security vulnerability!

[thewayne]

Amazon requires that your phone be set to allow apps from untrusted sources, which can open your phone to exploits. Google's app store does more inspecting, but is still not invulnerable. Amazon won't consciously allow compromised apps through, but you never know. And Amazon doesn't have a remote kill switch to remove installed apps that are found to be compromised like Google does.

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/03/amazon-app-store-security/

Comments

[silveradept]

True. It's a partially black box - and I would think that Google has a manner that bugfixes and the like can be submitted back to them for inclusion in the next fix / release. Not that they'll necessarily take them and acknowledge it, but there should be such a manner.