On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Maps.Huge.Info (Maps API Guru) <[email protected]> wrote: > An anti-aircraft missile has multiple purposes as well. It can be used > as a hammer or paperweight, can be a really nice conversation piece in > the living room or an auction item on e-bay. None of those are the > real purpose though, sort of like this tool.
An anti-aircraft missile's most important use is to maintain security through mutually assured destruction. In the hands of the good guys that's exactly what it does. In the hands of the bad guys it MIGHT not be used for that purpose. You don't know either way. People are NOT guilty until proven innocent no matter how much you'd like it to be that way. One of the legitimate uses of this tool is to assist white-hat hackers in finding security flaws. Android apps are mostly closed source, so I welcome any white-hat hackers who would use this tool to locate any security flaws, to make my Android experience more secure. Where do you think all the entries on securityfocus.com come from? Clue: not the bad guys. The entries come from white-hats using tools just like this one to perform reverse engineering, to audit the resulting decompilation for flaws, very often manually with their own eyeballs, in their own spare time. You don't even understand what it is you're not being thankful for. -- Greg Donald destiney.com | gregdonald.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
