On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 2:49 PM, klewelling <klewell...@gmail.com> wrote:
> My take-away from your comments is that a fundamental risk is > security. I understand you have some technical reservations but that > is for me to worry about:) You are of course correct that every APK > executing in the host will have the same rights and abilities. Is your > main concern that one or more of the APKs will take advantage of what > is essentially privilege escalation? The risk of privilege escalation > is obviously malware where an app sends SMS's and/or uploads private > information. The challenge is to prevent or stop this kind of > behavior. Is this analysis correct? > I think Mark's comments mean this: -- Are you prepared to reinvent the entire android security system just for your app -- That seems like a lot of work for something that is just a "social app discovery" service -- If you do it wrong you're inviting badness. kris -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
