8% of Android Apps Are Leaking Private Information

kai_hiwatari writes "Neil Daswani, who is also the CTO of security firm Dasient, says that they have studied around 10,000 Android apps and have found that 800 of them are leaking private information of the user to an unauthorized server. Neil Daswani is scheduled to present the full findings at the Black Hat Conference in Las Vegas which starts on July 30th. The Dasient researchers also found out that 11 of the apps they have examined are sending unwanted SMS messages."

Poor security/subterfuge/sloppy coding

[justsomecomputerguy]

Vendor: "I'm shocked, SHOCKED to find information being leaked here!" Waiter: "Here's your mined data sir..." Vendor: "Thank you"

BUT IT'S LINUX !! DAMN YOU !! IT'S LINUX !!

[Anonymous Coward]

It must be okay because we are open source, free as in beer and free as in 60s' sex !! WE ARE THE WORLD !! So what if some chinese have my info ?? It's not like they can even say my name without me cracking up !!

In this day and age, it's worth it, I say !! Live and let them have their cake !!

Yours,
Ben Vereen