On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Jeffrey Walton <[email protected]> wrote: > > ... "An Evaluation > of the Application ("App") Verification Service in Android 4.2," > http://www.cs.ncsu.edu/faculty/jiang/appverify/. > > Would it be possible for Google to supply an application that turns to > the crowd for answers? Here, the crowd refers to users' aggregated > results from the AV solutions they use. Its similar to the model used > by Immunet (http://www.immunet.com/main/index.html). > > This way, app users would get the benefit of the AV industry (and not > one provider), and Google can focus on its core activities (and get > out of the antivirus business). Someone else (Jim Huang) just made a similar observation: "Extend the web security model to the OS", http://www.slideshare.net/jserv/brief-tour-about-android-security.
... that's if my leap from "the crowd" to the "web security model" is correct. Jeff -- 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.
