On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 6:56 PM, Doug <dmcgarr...@optonline.net> wrote:
> On 03/14/2011 06:24 PM, johhny_at_poland77 wrote: > > or android is a good solution? can i run chrome on it? is it a "safe" > distro? > > I don't know for sure, but since Chrome and Android are products of Google, > it would really be surprising if Chrome wouldn't run. Also, since Android > is > an offshoot of Linux, which is pretty safe, and besides, is very new, it's > likely that not much in the way of nasties is around as yet. > > i'm not sure exactly what you mean by 'pretty safe' or 'not much in the way of nasties', but if you're talking about security holes or malicious software, i would call that naive: http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2011/03/update-on-android-market-security.html as an android user, i'm not saying the operating system is bad (i can point out issues with iphone as well - less so with rim). (i read this after talking about all of the cool security issues we will see with mobile devices in the next six months: mobile botnets taking down cell networks, celebs getting recorded from their own phones, and so many other things. think of what a logic bomb could do on even 0.1% of us cell phones)
