Hi Mark,

How I can skip an application like this?

I thought that I had to enter in "Settings" to kill the app.

Sorry, I'm no expert, I hope you can help me.

On 6 sep, 15:55, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 3:15 PM,ngbl<[email protected]> wrote:
> > The app can block Settings and even the application itself, this will
> > not allow anyone to disable the service.
>
> I could probably teach my nephew how to bypass these apps. He's eight
> years old and has never held a smartphone.
>
> The technique these apps use is security theater, more likely to be
> used by malware than anybody who truly understands security. I have
> suggested to Google that the technique in question is a security risk;
> to date, they have declined to address it.
>
> Real security (e.g., your "enterprise" scenario) comes from stuff in
> the firmware, as others have indicated.
>
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