Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login

Well that's just it isn't it. If you took (not mine, but most people's laptop), you'd be able to read out all of their cookies (fun, in and of itself), read the contents of their saved Firefox passwords, read the cached/stored passwords for Pidgin, etc, etc.

You can't really remove the flash memory from an Android phone. I mean, you could, but if someone's that interested in you, they're going to get the information through easier or nastier means. Meanwhile, that file is protected by Android, and lacking a root exploit, not much is going to happen.

Google's stewardship of the Market combined with their backporting of root escalation bug fixes makes it very hard for me to get as scared or ironically angry as those in the linked bug report.




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: