Newly Discovered Android Security Flaw

Gravdigr · 09-26-2012, 01:24 PM

Someone knowledgeable about such things, please read this:

Newly discovered Android security flaw can wipe your phone with the click of a link

Now, a question:

Does this effect devices other than phones? Say like other gadgets that use Android? Say like, ohhhhh, I don't know...The NookColor?

TIA.

limey · 09-26-2012, 03:33 PM

Doesn't look like it - it makes the phone dial out, so if'n it's not a phone it can't dial, right? But maybe a GrownUp should take a look for us, please?

xoxoxoBruce · 09-26-2012, 04:06 PM

Yes, it says you can avoid it by using a different dialing program.

regular.joe · 09-26-2012, 09:43 PM

It's like a rick roll.....I knew I should never have clicked that link!

Gravdigr · 09-27-2012, 02:26 PM

Heheh, I thought there might be some "I ain't clicking that link for nothing!"-type posts.

Thanks for the input.

09-26-2012, 01:24 PM	#1
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09-26-2012, 03:33 PM	#2
limey Encroaching on your decrees Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: An island within the south-west coast of Scotland Posts: 7,016	Doesn't look like it - it makes the phone dial out, so if'n it's not a phone it can't dial, right? But maybe a GrownUp should take a look for us, please? __________________ Living it up on the edge ... of civilisation, within the southwest coast of

09-26-2012, 04:06 PM	#3
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Yes, it says you can avoid it by using a different dialing program. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

09-26-2012, 09:43 PM	#4
regular.joe Старый сержант Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: NC, dreaming of large Russian women. Posts: 1,464	It's like a rick roll.....I knew I should never have clicked that link! __________________ Birth, wealth, and position are valueless during wartime. Man is only judged by his character --Soldier's Testament. Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature. - Marcus Aurelius.

09-27-2012, 02:26 PM	#5
Gravdigr The Un-Tuckian Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: South Central...KY that is Posts: 39,517	Heheh, I thought there might be some "I ain't clicking that link for nothing!"-type posts. Thanks for the input. __________________ These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA, EPA, FBI, DEA, CDC, or FDIC. These statements are not intended to diagnose, cause, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. If you feel you have been harmed/offended by, or, disagree with any of the above statements or images, please feel free to fuck right off.

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