On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 2:08 AM, Hiro OKUYAMA <[email protected]> wrote: > We can make and run "cron-like program" by the AlarmManager on > Android.
Correct. > But I think those are dangerous for we. You are welcome to your opinion. > Because AlarmManager as stealthy as follows: > * Not resident You may wish to find a better translation -- "resident" has no particular meaning in this context. > As just described, we can make malware using AlarmManager easily. (ex: > http://isc.sans.edu/diary.html?storyid=10186) By that reasoning, you can make malware using RAM easily. After all, RAM is not shown in the Task Manager, cannot be stopped, and cannot enumerate its contents (courtesy of process-level security). I would agree that malware uses RAM; few would argue that RAM specifically enables malware. If you have found specific exploits that are somehow uniquely tied to AlarmManager, please supply details (and perhaps a demonstration project) to the security group: http://developer.android.com/resources/faq/security.html -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy _The Busy Coder's Guide to *Advanced* Android Development_ Version 1.9 Available! -- 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
