Hi Dianne Hackborn, Ok. Meaning those custom keyboards available for installation to Android can be potentially malicious?
Regards, Perumal On Jan 5, 11:18 am, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote: > Well we certainly wouldn't want it to be possible. You could of course > write your own IME that when in use logs all the events being generated. > > > > > > On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 7:01 PM, perumal316 <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi All, > > > Even though there has been news of malicious Android applications, > > these applications mostly steal personal information, location etc. > > > But there has not been any incidents of a keyboard logger in Android. > > > Is it because it is not possible in Android? > > Inter Process Communication (IPC) offers some kind of protection? > > > Trying to understand the security model of Android but could not find > > any lead on this subject. > > > Thanks and Regards, > > Perumal > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Android Security Discussions" group. > > To post to this group, send email to > > [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]<android-security-discuss%[email protected]> > > . > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/android-security-discuss?hl=en. > > -- > Dianne Hackborn > Android framework engineer > [email protected] > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to > provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such > questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and > answer them.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Security Discussions" 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-security-discuss?hl=en.
