Ed, I think that's definitely a good question and distinction. This kill was only used on a market app, not an independently installed one.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Ed Meacham (@work) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ed@edmeacham.com">ed@edmeacham.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">To answer your question: I don’t know of a way to block
it.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">But, I’m sure it possible if you have a root access. Maybe
even if you don’t… My first thought is to find out the service name
(someone out there has to know what it is) then write a cronjob to kill it.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">I’m not going to try to root my Droid (Milestone) until I
get the X. (a month or so from now) By then, someone should definitely have an
answer to this though. :/ </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">In my opinion, Google is pretty relaxed on the app approval
process… it’s nice for honest developers, and for getting updates.
Maybe this will motivate them to start/do better unit testing on apps. I wonder
if they could use this kill method on apps that not installed via the Market? (they’d
need to know the package name, but still…)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">-emeacham (@work)</span></p>
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<a href="mailto:cialug-bounces@cialug.org" target="_blank">cialug-bounces@cialug.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:cialug-bounces@cialug.org" target="_blank">cialug-bounces@cialug.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Kenneth
Younger<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, June 30, 2010 10:12 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Central Iowa Linux Users Group<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Cialug] Android Issue?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">I was curious about this
myself. I would only imagine if you got an unlocked version of some phone and
installed your own ROM, then you could avoid it. I just don't know though.
Being that it's open source, I would doubt this made it into the core code, but
I suppose it's possible.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Josh More <<a href="mailto:MoreJ@alliancetechnologies.net" target="_blank">MoreJ@alliancetechnologies.net</a>>
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<p class="MsoNormal">So, for those of you who have Android, do you know of a way
to block this: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/28/google_remote_android_application_install/" target="_blank">http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/28/google_remote_android_application_install/</a><br>
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This was one of the reasons I was leaning towards Android over iPhone.
Now they're both back to being kinda sucky. (Admittedly, from a
"company playing a parent" perspective, Apple is a lot worse.)<br>
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-Josh More, CISSP, GIAC-GSLC, GIAC-GCIH, RHCE, NCLP<br>
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