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HTTPS Defects in Dozens of Android Apps Expose User Passwords

posted by LaminatorX on Monday June 22 2015, @02:30AM   
from the opposite-day dept.

darkfeline writes:

http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/06/game-over-https-defects-in-dozens-of-android-apps-expose-user-passwords/

Many Android apps in the Google App store do not properly use HTTPS for logins, thus exposing user passwords.

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• Re:phone software, yeah, that's usually high quali Re:phone software, yeah, that's usually high quali (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 22 2015, @02:07PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 22 2015, @02:07PM (#199413)

  Such a line is an almost certain hint that the one who writes that line is the stupid one.

  You stated this as a statistical fact, and yet I don't see you citing any studies. There are plenty of stupid proposals being suggested out that, so I don't see where you get this.

  Sure, because nobody has ever been able to develop a standard about anything.

  I wouldn't say that it's impossible to develop a standard, but it isn't a good idea. You're going to increase the cost of developing software immensely, and even with a FLOSS exception, there are little guys who develop and sell their own software (probably learning to code while doing so) that probably couldn't meet these standards. And they probably develop unimportant phone apps, too.

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• Re:phone software, yeah, that's usually high quali (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 23 2015, @08:38AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 23 2015, @08:38AM (#199788)

  there are little guys who develop and sell their own software (probably learning to code while doing so)

  If you are still learning to code, you shouldn't sell the stuff you wrote, period.

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