{"id":257,"date":"2011-08-17T09:14:26","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T13:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/?p=257"},"modified":"2011-08-17T10:19:34","modified_gmt":"2011-08-17T14:19:34","slug":"google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/?p=257","title":{"rendered":"Google++"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new piece of Android software, which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scmagazineus.com\/new-android-spyware-answers-incoming-calls\/article\/209639\/\">installs itself as &#8220;Google++&#8221;<\/a>, is a true bundle of joy. Not only does it steal data from the phone, it is also capable of answering phone calls from a predetermined number (after setting the handset to silent and turning on the speakerphone) to allow the attacker to eavesdrop on the surrounding environment.<\/p>\n<p>Much as I chafe at the restrictive nature of the Apple App Store, it really is a model that makes sense for an appliance like a phone. It&#8217;s nice to have the added flexibility of a platform like Android, but it also imports all of the security problems of a general computing device along with the capabilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new piece of Android software, which installs itself as &#8220;Google++&#8221;, is a true bundle of joy. Not only does it steal data from the phone, it is also capable of answering phone calls from a predetermined number (after setting the handset to silent and turning on the speakerphone) to allow the attacker to eavesdrop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-smartphones","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}