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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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I'm mentally OVERDRAWN! What's that SIGNPOST up ahead? Where's ROD
STERLING when you really need him?
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday October 21 2015, @12:53AM
You've heard the engineering maxim? KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid. The more complex anything is, the more things there are to go wrong. And, in the case of operating systems, the more complexity there is, the more potential exploits there are. An OS is going to be pretty complex, even when the coders shoot for simple. But the maxim dictates that they introduce no more complexity than necessary.