ru.org.amip.marketaccess.MarketAccess & ClockSync
I have come across these applications regarding upgrading my Gentouch78 tablet and I was wondering if these programs are secure and are not shipping my data off to some third party. There have been a rash of cyberattaks Any feedach would be appeciated.
I'm the developer of these apps. Believe me or not, but they are safe to use and do not send your data anywhere.
MarketAccess is even open source, so you can check yourself if it's safe or not if you know any Java, see http://code.google.com/p/market-enabler/source/browse/#svn/branches/MarketAccess
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I went through my Heros settings and found that in "menu>settings>applications" theres a check-box named "unknown sources" which while checked allows install of non-Market applications.
Why is there such a setting? Since Android OS is open-sourced, isn't the whole point that everybody should be able to upload apps to the Marketplace without Google having to accept them first? If it is like that, why wouldn't all apps be on the market place?
The only reason i see for this is so that you would be able to install apps that Google wont allow, but if they don't allow the app, why would they have a setting so you can install it?
Please tell my why there is such a setting.
Thank you /nofowuw
my only guess is that that setting is equivalent to a Release of Liability form. Any damage caused by apps installed from external sources, not on the Market where it can be rated and commented upon (maybe filtered too?) cannot thus be blamed on Google?
nofowuw said:
Why is there such a setting? Since Android OS is open-sourced, isn't the whole point that everybody should be able to upload apps to the Marketplace without Google having to accept them first? If it is like that, why wouldn't all apps be on the market place?
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The fact that Android is open source has absolutely *nothing* to do with the Market. There are many reasons why a developer might not want to put their apps on the Market - a core consideration might be that they want to sell their apps, but paid apps are not available in their region, so perhaps they want to use a different distribution method.
Similarly, in some regions, Android phones do not ship with the Market app at all, presumably because Google charge a licence to ship their closed source apps.
Regards,
Dve
google does not check the apps in the market. every app comes to the market, but there is the self-controlling mechanism: if several users complain about an app (and rate it bad) it will be taken out of the market. also you wouldn't install an app that has 1 star and several warnings in the comments. this way you can be pretty (not 100%) sure that the app from the market won't harm your phone. last but not least through the market it can be tracked down to the dev who created the app.
now if you download an app or someone sends it to you all that is gone. no user ratings, no comments, no dev. this is why you have to check that box when you want to install apps from other sources...
ohh, ok... umm.
So how do you install these applications? Just put the application-file on the SD and the phone does the rest? Is there any community that host a library of apps to download?
Since i live in a non-full market region and cant buy apps, i guess this can be usefull for me
Hi Guys,
What is your opinion, do you think that today's android operating smart phones are so vulnerable to the visus threat as for exemple our PCs so that we should all run a dedicated program in order to cope with that?
I don't use any. If you don't download any pirated apps from untrusted, you should be safe, however no guarantee, install it if you need it for a peace of mind.
I use LBE Privacy Guard, so everytime I install an app, I can see what it accesses and block it accordingly. For example, many games want direct access to calls, sending sms, which I block with LBE. As far as protection, I think this is probably the safest bet for android.
Maybe scanning apps you install could be a good start , but I don't think having an antivirus running all the times is really benefic ,attacks on such devices are possible but rare compared to computer's one ( related to the fact using 3G network )
As most of users here, I again say, it is really unnecessary to run Antivirus unless you install new apps or anything.
LBE on other hand is good start for checking what apps can do.
I would say not yet but keep an eye on the future .
jje
Hi!
For privacy reasons, I'd like to use my CM7.2 Atrix [Neutrino ROM] without any ties to Google. I've got all servers set up myself [Contacts, Tasks, Mail etc.], so this would be perfectly possible, except that I basically need the Play Store. ATM, it's still the only decent source for apps at least here in Germany, so I'd like to retain the functionality somehow while being able to remove it and the Google account it requires from my device.
Are there any decent solutions for that? I know that there's been some work going on to get it to run in an Android emulator, but this seems to include a lot of unreliable hacking, and I'm not sure how usable it would be for practical purposes. Basically, I'd just like to have some way to retrieve the APKs for free apps and those I paid for without resorting to dubious third-party download sites.
Please not that I'm not trying to do anything illegitimate here, for some reasons someone looking for privacy seems to get accused of that a lot. I could just get the APKs from the phone itself if I wanted to redistribute them or similar.
Thanks!
David
Hi everyone!!
I am freshmen android - thats is just converted from iOS to android to see what the hubbub was all about with my new samsung galaxy s4 - anyway there are a few things that abit concerning to me - I have the australia version of this phone and sadly the "Dock apps" at the bottom are locked and cannot be changed nor rearranged and so to remedy this I have decided to download a launcher (apex launcher) and one thing I noticed before i clicked install wass it requested access to pretty much everything on my phone including my personal details which leads me to my question:
- Does the launcher have access to ALL my personal details? If I install my banking app on this and start doing online banking, will they have access to this information such as my account numbers and everything? Same with facebook - will they have access to that information i.e my username and pw and so on?
Thankyou in advance everyone!
Probably not,
Theoretically yes,
Stick to the market and do not download apps from untrusted sources,
Same goes for any system,
Ever have a program ask for admin privledges to make changes to this computer on Windows? Same thing, except on Android that data the apps get access to is divided so that apps don't gein universal privlages to just access everything, they have to specify exactly what info they need.
Edit:
Android is very paranoid, which is why I hate it. I can't even hack my own phone let alone someone elses. It would take some serious social engineering and redirection of web traffic to get them to download a malicious app. Alot of work unless you put them up like all those free apks that u usually have to pay for are probably some form of malware in em.
My plan is to modify permissions for almost every app on my phone including system apps.
There will be 2 categories:
1. Apps that need to be able to phone home (Internet access, I guess).
(For those I want to block access to all my personal information / data.)
2. Apps that don't need to phone home.
(For those I just want to make sure the apps can't leak my data/information.)
Now let's say I want to prevent an app from accessing the Internet:
Is it enough to just tap the according check box? Because some of the 'functions' listed under that category don't get a check mark by default. Which of these functions do actually make sending/receiving data over the Internet possible?
I'm not an Android developer, so I don't know what all the 'functions' can potentially do/expose. What is your advice for people like me? Should I just disable all functions under a category that I want to restrict and see if it works? Or am I truly expected to become an Android developer and understand every single class member listed in the app? It would be nice to have a short explanation and assessment for each function.