Android Trojan When Google Smartphone Remote Controls

Google has accessed without knowledge of the users through a back door to 260,000 Android phones. The group wanted to remove a Trojan - and inspired criminals. Lenin was convinced that a good end justifies almost any means - a view that is more controversial today. Done, however, the debate is not how Google shows straight. The group has never asked to 260,000 smart phones with the Android operating system access to a malicious program to delete them on. Access used to be a conscious for just that purpose back door installed in the operating system. The irony: The programmer of such a nasty Trojan used backdoor .

In the past week programs were unknown in the Android App Market 58 set, which contained a trojan. DroidDream as they called the program, which should capture all the phones, which one of the programs are loaded down. While Google removed the affected apps from the download area, but a total of 260,000 phones at this stage were already contaminated.

Google has used then for the second time its ability to access Androidhandys. Using the Remote Application Removal feature turned out the company damaged Apps affected at all smartphones again.

The remote access was done with good intentions, but it is controversial. Because the owners know nothing about and certainly have no chance to prevent it. The company can not only delete apps, but access to the complete operating system and change each setting. As a consequence, this means that an Android phone (Apple can with the iPhone and iPad also as the Microsoft System WP 7), the owner is not really, because the actual control exercised by the Group. As long as it is done in good, this is perhaps not a problem, but no one can check that it stays that way.

And now Google wants a second time by his own backdoor go: The Group has not only the Trojans away, is also in the coming days the software update Android Market Security Tool March 2011 on the affected devices are installed. This makes all unauthorized changes to the phones back. Users and only after it is installed with an e-mail informed in advance.

Another problem: criminals use such back doors. The probability that they get open is a Google-programmed and secure back door, high. On the grounds of higher security device is thus made ultimately uncertain.