Showing posts with label Security. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Security. Show all posts

Sunday, 17 January 2010

On an Android 2.0.1 Security Flaw




The recent discovery of an Android 2.0.1 security flaw got me thinking. I developed a prototype of an app I want to put on the Android Market, it was my first attempt at building a mobile platform application; to protect the information stored in it, the first thing you saw after starting the app was a screen asking you for a password. For months, I used it, storing valuable information within it, and one day, instead of touching the "OK" button to input the password, I touched "Exit". I started the app again, and found out... it did not ask me for the password. Similarly, the Android 2.0.1 flaw is found in a situation we, as developers, do not usually think about.