To boldly go where no man has gone before...

If you can read English then please replace then with than in the last sentence. Ok thanks bye

Sure you could do binary analysis and network traffic capturing but both of these things can be veiled in obscurity. Binary analysis is often extremely time consuming (especially if the author of said (spy|mal)ware is using anti-debugging tricks and self encryption which prevents normal strings from being extracted). As for the network monitoring it's possible to use stenography to pipe out information in things as obscure as DNS requests and outgoing TCP headers. But there is nothing that says keylogger quite like a hook seen from a kernel debugger. Gotta go to the source. Can't say this StarKeylogger would employ any of these techniques tho. I'm feeling just as lazy as the person who pointed said keylogger out in the first place.

We believed someone who used a 3rd rate antivirus and didnt verify with a kernel debugger? FAIL on all our parts especially the "security researcher" who so thoroughly researched this one

I love how all this ruckus was caused by one "security researcher" who couldn't even confirm an actual keylogger was on the system produced by a second rate antivirus. It was a false positive as we find out but it's a big slap in the face to the guy who called it without verifying. All the Antivirus did afterall was spot a suspicious directory. A responsible security researcher would have gone further to confirm the issue rather than try to plaster his name against Samsung. If you've got a kernel debugger USE IT!

People have nothing to say and no one cares anyway! At least we can back this up with research. Wonderful.

Ice cream is a bad analogy for this. I'm rather bitter about the whole subject.

dont fight it, you'll just end up looking like a fool and be overtaken by more change happy competitors

Microsoft failed in the mobile market. This isn't surprising that they'd go this far after being so butt hurt and spanked by Blackberry, Apple and Google's quick success in the new markets. My message to M$ is simple: suck it up, try to catch up and get your shit together.

I wish you weren't absolutely right on this one. I just hope that this corrupt system doesn't disappoint me even further. Also as an ATT customer (not by choice, long story) I can personally say what shit we're in for: dropped calls, late texts, crazy data rates. Caps will get smaller. And Android updates will be stuck at 3 versions back because they have no incentive to do otherwise.

The problem is Michio Kaku is stuck in the world of physics. He sees things in terms of equations and absolutes (Moore's law is an equation for him, not just an idea). Physics and math deal in absolutes but they don't give much flexibility for flexibility. Economics on the other hand adapts naturally. It is flexible because it needs to be. Physics isn't flexible it requires a hard rulesets. Economy isn't a natural science, it's an ever changing completely unpredictable (in the long term) beast and to say that once this tech reaches this point the economy will do this is just a really out there guess. Don't misunderstand, I respect Mr. Kaku for exactly what he is: a scientist. But.. "Forget it, you're out of your element Donny!"

The bar is made of solid gold courtesy of MicroFUD. Who don't they pay off anymore? That list would be more interesting

Yea every time I hear "administration", "privacy", and "rights" in the same sentence in a story I pretty much assume they're up to no good. That's just how far it's gone. I didnt even read the article. A lot of us don't need to.