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Re: SwiftKey vulnerability lets hackers easily take control of devices

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On 27/06/2015 09:12, Sylvia Else wrote:
> On 27/06/2015 10:08 AM, Mike Duffy wrote:
>> On Fri, 26 Jun 2015 19:12:37 +1000, Sylvia Else wrote:
>>
>>> Unless the relevant consumer laws state otherwise, it would be against
>>> Samsung, since the consumer has no contract with Swiftkey.
>>
>> Did you ever read (all the way to the end) the Samsung licence
>> agrreement?
>>
>> I gave up and turned off auto-update of my phone when I got to the
>> special
>> section for Quebec. I am not a lawyer, but on the face of it it looks
>> imperturbably unenforceable according to Quebec law.
>>
>> Quebec law clearly states that french documents where available take
>> precedence over english translations under the civil code. But the Quebec
>> addendum (in french) states that the english copy of the contract takes
>> precedence over the french translation. So you end up with a circular
>> reference in the legal precedence relationship of the two versions.
>>
>
> I suspect many software licence agreements are, at least in part,
> unenforceable, particularly where the software comes as a necessary
> adjunct to a physical object such as a phone.
>
> In the present case, even if the licence agreement purported to limit
> Samsung's liability in respect of the software, that would fail to get
> past consumer protection laws in jurisdictions such as Australia, where
> the law expressly prevents a supplier from contracting out of its
> liabilities under the law.
>
> Sylvia.

The issue for me, right now, is to find out what I can do about it, or 
even if it affects me. I don't remember the last update my Samsung S2 
got! Sat with JellyBean 4.1.2 from 2013. I don't want to get rid the 
phone yet (am waiting to make a decision about replacement as the rest 
of this year's phones get released). Indeed, is the keyboard software

-- 
Rod

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SwiftKey vulnerability lets hackers easily take control of devices Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2015-06-19 17:25 +1000
  Re: SwiftKey vulnerability lets hackers easily take control of devices voyager529 <voyager529@live.com> - 2015-06-25 15:27 -0400
    Re: SwiftKey vulnerability lets hackers easily take control of devices Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2015-06-26 19:12 +1000
      Re: SwiftKey vulnerability lets hackers easily take control of devices Mike Duffy <see_website@signature.block> - 2015-06-26 20:08 -0400
        Re: SwiftKey vulnerability lets hackers easily take control of devices Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-06-27 08:12 +0300
          Re: SwiftKey vulnerability lets hackers easily take control of devices Mike Duffy <see_website@signature.block> - 2015-06-27 01:24 -0400
            Re: SwiftKey vulnerability lets hackers easily take control of devices Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-06-27 08:29 +0300
        Re: SwiftKey vulnerability lets hackers easily take control of devices Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2015-06-27 18:12 +1000
          Re: SwiftKey vulnerability lets hackers easily take control of devices polygonum <rmoudndgers@vrod.co.uk> - 2015-06-27 13:14 +0100

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