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By: Andreas Udo de Haes | 7 hours ago

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Google is trying to capsizing. the negative image of Android and mobile malware mecca According to Google chairman Eric Schmidt’s Android even “safer than the iPhone.”

Eric Schmidt is often good for remarkable statements and on the Gartner Symposium / ITxpo it was hit again. The perception of people that Android is unsafe is not true, it is even safer than iOS, says the CEO.

Not unsafe, not fragmented

Schmidt made his statement in response to Gartner analyst David Willis, who stated: “If you ask most people in this audience, they say that Android is not their main platform is [...] When you say Android. , people say ‘ho ho, wait a minute, Android is not safe. ” Schmidt replied promptly: “? EEEEK It is safer than the iPhone.” Which the audience responded with laughter, reports ZDNet.

to criticism about the fragmentation of Android Schmidt had an answer: It’s not so much the version of Android, but the Play Store that is available. “With Android we have an agreement with vendors (manufacturers and telcos, red) to keep the Android-compatible stores and that is a major breakthrough for Android.”

Central role for Play Services

Schmidt thereby refers to the increasingly important role of Google Play, and especially its Play Services app, that all kinds of basic API functions and deploys security updates, even for devices with old Android versions. Play Services as the app also scans apps that are installed from unknown sources, by far the largest source of malicious apps.

Google recently went deeper into the security model of Android, a layered system that claims to ensuring that only 0.001 percent of all installed apps actually trying to circumvent.

the security mechanisms of Android in use

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Walled garden vs. layered model

Both Android and iOS with dual sandboxing to prevent apps to assign more rights and just be on your device data, documents and other apps. In addition, all installations on iOS app through the official Apple App Store, where Apple apps this pre-test and determine if admitted.

Android security chief Adrian Ludwig contrasts QZ.com walled garden that this method provides too primitive for a fast growing and complex ecosystem and Google’s layered security model of Android and the Play Store outcome.

Sandboxing apps in iOS.

Source: Webwereld.nl

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