... they can just create a closed, non-internet connected network (please dont say it will be costly, its the government). They would not need to bring the ENTIRE Internet down in the country.

      This is all about censorship.

How can they remove a program that Ive installed through my USB without knowing the name of the package? It can work for Market only, and theyve usedit once for a specific exploit.

Anyway, I love to rant about Apple. ;-)

You are just joking, but I need to answer. ;-)

The iStuff have the most severe exploit of all: Apple can do what they want with the iStuff, like delete things.

And this one exploit will never be fixed.

In the mosquitoes world, the males don't suck, only the females. There are no homossexual mosquitoes. ;-)

Oh, God, this shitty MS keyboard have two keys that looks like the apostrophe, and I ALWAYS use the wrong one - hence I have no apostrophes in my messages...

Yes, youre right. Im doomed. :-) Please let me know if you see my wifes nude pictures somewhere. ;-)

(I think I will need to use Lynx for Android ;-)) )

I generally would agree with you, but in cases like this it is not necessarily the user's fault. If the bug is really like the article describes, just clicking a link can exploit it - and you can avoid clicking in the "click here to see boobies", but not some google results that appear to be legit, or some links in forums, etc. If in fact you need to RUN something, then, yes, it will be the user's fault.

It will work. The phone will be dead, so nobody (even you) will read or write anything in the SD anymore. :-)

(I have a Nexus, and the only think I couldn't understand and think would make the phone even better is the lack of a SD port)

AFAIK Dolphin dont use a proxy to "compress" pages as Opera and Skyfire, so its not a threat to my privacy to use Dolphin. In Opera's and Skyfire's cases, I agree with you it would be.

But, in other news, when I was confirming that Dolphin don't use a proxy I just found out that it is built over the stock browser, and therefore probably doomed too. It seems that I will need to use the incredibly buggy Firefox for now. At least I have a stock Android (Nexus S) so probably Ill have a patch soon.

Im not minimizing the problem or its potential consequences, but the article says:

So the problem is the browser, not the OS, and it can be circumvented by using another browser (what a lot of people do, for example Opera and Dolphin). Good to know, since I use Dolphin most of the time, and Firefox Beta (still terribly buggy) now and then.

I, for one, welcome our mosquitoes overlords!

You happen to live in Sydney?

... to turn impossible to capture the screen, to copy/paste the content in some photo edition program, to make every single system to cope with that, and to get a brain.

You could want to run an app to (for example) record the conversation. What would be nice was some type of warning (for example a "recording" message). Even if the typical luser could not understand, they probably would ask someone about that strange voice in every call he make. :-)

Well, my wife think Im a weirdo because the two or three times that I absolutely needed to tell her our bank account password by the phone (she forgot it twice) I gave her 1/3 of the numbers at a cell-to-cell call, 1/3 in another fixed-to-fixed call and the last bit by e-mail. Today she is a little more concerned about security, but we slashdot nerds are not the rule. Everyday I see people typing their bank passwords in the open without worrying if someone is seeing, or givint out credit card information out loud.

About this specific trojan, this is not a surprise. We have the same problem in every OS we run - and iOS is not different, even with the draconian way Apple runs the store - and, lets face it, they do it not for our security, but for pure profit.

I have an Android phone and feel as safe as I feel in every other device (mobile or not): as safe as the softwares I run and the steps I take to prevent trojans, virus and such - but never 100% safe.