pre-installed Android apps pose significant privacy and security risks
Several tech newsites [Slashdot, ZDNet, TechCrunch, TechRadar and more] are reporting serious security and privacy vulnerabilities from pre-installed apps on Android devices.The study can be found on The Haystack Project website.
Over the past 2+ years Apple has continued to emphasize user privacy and data security as core values.
The study on Haystack's website reminds me of why I'm sticking with Apple...for now.
Just over a year ago I gave serious consideration to buying my first Windows PC since the late 1990s, a 13.5" Microsoft Surface Book 2 on sale at the lonely Microsoft Store in Corte Madera Village. The modular design, with its detachable tablet screen, a tablet running a full desktop Operating System, impressive hardware specs...all were compelling. But then I started reading about Windows 10 and its "PC phone home" peculiarities. I also had several conversations with my blogger collaborator, Mr. Mudan, a PC-based master software engineer who won't even think of turning on his computer without running Destroy Windows 10 Spying.
I took my first computer course on punch cards, the second on a shared CRT (that's Cathode Ray Tube) and the first IBM PC came out my junior year of college. I was a DOS-Windows guy up through Windows 98 ME. That was a golden era for me: a Sony VAIO desktop that synced with a 32MB HP Jornada running Windows and Office Lite, and a REXPro PCMCIA data card for pocket carry. I was Yahoo based and everything synced over the wire via Borland's Sidekick. I loved that software: clean, simple, functional.
Those were the days, before Windows XP came out, and I knew in advance it would be a nightmare from a user security and privacy standpoint. Three letters: RPC.
I switched over to Apple for the first time when I bought my first iBook running Mac OS X 10.1 Puma, sold my PC (too soon I might add) and dove into the MacWorld.
Oh yeah: I sold all my Intel stock and bought Apple, too! 😃
Looking back, OS X 10.1 wasn't ready for prime time and I felt really burned at the annual $129 upgrade punch. But this was just before the iPod and Steve Jobs was still deep into turning the company around.
A month ago I upgraded to an iPhone Xs, and I'm wearing a new Series 4 Nike Sports Apple Watch aluminum on my wrist.
I have to admit to having spec envy on a lot of Windows 10 PCs, the new Galaxy S10 Smartphones, and the Galaxy Watch. Price envy, too.
I get that at the end of the day all software, including Apple's, is vulnerable. But in these times of Facebook / Google / Twitter snoopware, I still prefer to spend my money with a company that holds my privacy and data security as a core value.
Thank you, Apple.
The study on Haystack's website reminds me of why I'm sticking with Apple...for now.
Just over a year ago I gave serious consideration to buying my first Windows PC since the late 1990s, a 13.5" Microsoft Surface Book 2 on sale at the lonely Microsoft Store in Corte Madera Village. The modular design, with its detachable tablet screen, a tablet running a full desktop Operating System, impressive hardware specs...all were compelling. But then I started reading about Windows 10 and its "PC phone home" peculiarities. I also had several conversations with my blogger collaborator, Mr. Mudan, a PC-based master software engineer who won't even think of turning on his computer without running Destroy Windows 10 Spying.
I took my first computer course on punch cards, the second on a shared CRT (that's Cathode Ray Tube) and the first IBM PC came out my junior year of college. I was a DOS-Windows guy up through Windows 98 ME. That was a golden era for me: a Sony VAIO desktop that synced with a 32MB HP Jornada running Windows and Office Lite, and a REXPro PCMCIA data card for pocket carry. I was Yahoo based and everything synced over the wire via Borland's Sidekick. I loved that software: clean, simple, functional.
Those were the days, before Windows XP came out, and I knew in advance it would be a nightmare from a user security and privacy standpoint. Three letters: RPC.
I switched over to Apple for the first time when I bought my first iBook running Mac OS X 10.1 Puma, sold my PC (too soon I might add) and dove into the MacWorld.
Oh yeah: I sold all my Intel stock and bought Apple, too! 😃
Looking back, OS X 10.1 wasn't ready for prime time and I felt really burned at the annual $129 upgrade punch. But this was just before the iPod and Steve Jobs was still deep into turning the company around.
A month ago I upgraded to an iPhone Xs, and I'm wearing a new Series 4 Nike Sports Apple Watch aluminum on my wrist.
I have to admit to having spec envy on a lot of Windows 10 PCs, the new Galaxy S10 Smartphones, and the Galaxy Watch. Price envy, too.
I get that at the end of the day all software, including Apple's, is vulnerable. But in these times of Facebook / Google / Twitter snoopware, I still prefer to spend my money with a company that holds my privacy and data security as a core value.
Thank you, Apple.
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