So yesterday, CNET reported that a security research firm SMobile Systems had published a paper that made an assertion that 1/5th of all Android apps "allow a third-party application access to sensitive or private information".
Just within the hour, PC World is reporting that Google has remotely deleted two Android apps from users' phones and the Android Market, that were "free applications built by a security researcher for research purposes".
Coincidence? I think not!
Now, while these two apps were reported to not be malicious, Google has just demonstrated that they indeed have a back door to remotely delete apps, were they malicious...at the expense of SMobile, methinks.
The question is, does this apply to jail-broken phones running CyanogenMod?
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