[Cialug] Android Issue?

[Ed Meacham (@work)]

To answer your question: I don't know of a way to block it.

 

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.

 

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. :/ 

 

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.)

 

-emeacham (@work)

 

From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf
Of Kenneth Younger
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 10:12 AM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Cialug] Android Issue?

 

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.

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Josh More <MoreJ at alliancetechnologies.net>
wrote:

So, for those of you who have Android, do you know of a way to block this:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/28/google_remote_android_application_in
stall/

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.)

-Josh More, CISSP, GIAC-GSLC, GIAC-GCIH, RHCE, NCLP
morej at alliancetechnologies.net
515-245-7701
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