Google scheint erstmals von der Möglichkeit Gebrauch gemacht zu haben, eine Applikation aus dem Market von allen Smartphones zu löschen, die diese geladen hatten. Es handelte sich dabei nicht um eine Malware sondern um ein Testprogramm eines Programmierers. Nachdem dieser das Programm aus dem Market entfernt hat, hat Google es von allen Handies ebenfalls gelöscht und den Usern eine Mitteilung gesendet ...
ganzer Artikel in englischOn Wednesday, Android security lead Rich Cannings said in a blog post that Google had remotely uninstalled an application from all Android devices that were running it. The kill switch option, used sparingly by Google, was a clean-up effort, and not one that targeted a malicious application.
“Recently, we became aware of two free applications built by a security researcher for research purposes,” Cannings noted [link]. “These applications intentionally misrepresented their purpose in order to encourage user downloads, but they were not designed to be used maliciously, and did not have permission to access private data — or system resources beyond permission.INTERNET.”
For those unfamiliar, the 'permission.INTERNET' function means that the application can access the Internet from the mobile device. As is the case with many functions, the user needs to allow this access before it can connect to the outside.
Once the unnamed researcher removed the applications from the Android Marketplace, Google used the kill switch to clean up any remaining installations.
Customers impacted by Google’s decision were given a notice on their devices explaining that Google had removed the applications. For the most part, according to Cannings, most users uninstalled the programs once downloaded, as they were practically useless.









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