Contents tagged with security

• Android app permissions - why is it all or nothing?

  Mar 11 2012 8:54 PM

  I like my android phone. My Nexus S is now running 4.0 ICS for a few weeks now, and it's great. It looks more "authentically digital" than the 2.3 OS, and more like Windows phone 7. One problem, it took me 2 weeks to work out how to pick up an incoming voice call, but hey, who does that a lot on a phone any more?

  What's wrong with this little free app that draws some graphs? It gets data from a server. And it asks for permission to "make calls, costing you money". Say what? Doesn't that look like a premium rate scam?

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• Remote wipe - Why my new phone won't be connected to my work mail

  Jan 16 2011 11:37 AM

  I've been enthusiastically tweeting about and from my new Google Android Nexus S phone. It's a lovely little phone with so much inside it. I felt that shiny-new potential way about the G1 running Android 1.5 when I got one about 2 years ago, too. Now it seems so dated and clunky in comparison. Such is the pace of change.

  One software feature, I think, is badly misdesigned. This handset is my personal phone, which I have bought and paid for. But it would help to be able to read work emails on it from time to time. The 2010 iteration of Outlook Web Access is slick, but a native mail client is prefereable. So I entered the exchange server mail details into the email app, but stopped at a dialog asking me if I wished to accept the mail administrator's security control over the phone.

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