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HTTPS Defects in Dozens of Android Apps Expose User Passwords

posted by LaminatorX on Monday June 22 2015, @02:30AM   Printer-friendly
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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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 23 2015, @01:19AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 23 2015, @01:19AM (#199680)

    There are penalties in engineering, if an engineer makes terrible decisions and building/bridge collapses, then they can be liable including imprisonment. When was the last time an engineer went to jail? Why are most residential foundations in North America cracking? Why aren't these "professionals" accountable?

    Because the problem there isn't shoddy design, its that they haven't been maintained. The government has a responsibility to maintain infrastructure, so they should be the ones in prison when bridges collapse after decades of neglect.