[Cialug] Android Issue?

[Kenneth Younger]

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.

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Ed Meacham (@work) <ed at edmeacham.com>wrote:

>  To answer your question: I don’t know of a way to block it.
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> 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.
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> 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. :/
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> 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…)
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> -emeacham (@work)
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> *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?
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> 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.
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> On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Josh More <
> MoreJ at alliancetechnologies.net> wrote:
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> So, for those of you who have Android, do you know of a way to block this:
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> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/28/google_remote_android_application_install/
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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.)
>
> -Josh More, CISSP, GIAC-GSLC, GIAC-GCIH, RHCE, NCLP
> morej at alliancetechnologies.net
> 515-245-7701
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