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Proving that the more complex the OS, the easier it is to hack, and how root really isn't required to attack a device a malicious app bypassed Ubuntu Phone security checks to give the attacker full control over the phone.
Luckily only 15 people are known to have downloaded the app but one has to wonder if Ubuntu Phone is already being targeted so successfully in its infancy what does that bode when its a more juicy target?
An educated guess for the unreleased sales statistics can be found on Riccardo Padovani's blog.
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Remember Darwin; building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday October 20 2015, @09:26PM
less complex != more secure
True, perhaps. However, less complex is definitely easier to secure.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 20 2015, @11:35PM
As MICROS~1 has demonstrated repeatedly with its ridiculous time-to-patch performance, [google.com] the more complex the interactions of your code, the longer it takes to check that fixing 1 thing doesn't break 20 other things.
In contrast, having code that does 1 thing, does it well, and interacts predictably with other code built to the same standard [wikipedia.org] makes life much easier when a patch is needed.
-- gewg_