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  John McAfee declares war on Android cykros <cykros@devio.us> - 2014-02-12 02:59 -0500
    Re: John McAfee declares war on Android Vince Mulhollon <vincemulhollon@gmail.com> - 2014-02-12 06:29 -0800
      Re: John McAfee declares war on Android RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-12 14:55 +0000
        Re: John McAfee declares war on Android 2phar <none@example.com> - 2014-02-12 10:02 -0500
          Re: John McAfee declares war on Android cykros@devio.us - 2014-02-13 04:53 +0000

#286 — John McAfee declares war on Android

First time submitter cykros writes:
John McAfee announced his next product, "Cognizant",
reported by Silicon Angle. An Android app, it aims
to provide security for the mobile OS by taking a
census of what  permissions are granted to specific
applications.  Providing awareness of the extent of
unnecessary and overreaching permissions, by McAfee's
logic, will encourage users to delete or avoid
installing apps with the most egregious of security
issues.

Let's hope it's easier to uninstall this one than
the last major security product to bear his name.

TFA:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/02/12/john_mcafee_cognizant_for_android/

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#302

On Wednesday, February 12, 2014 1:59:34 AM UTC-6, cykros wrote:
> Providing awareness of the extent of unnecessary and overreaching permissions

My small town three office credit union has an app for people too lazy or baffled to use the website.  All it does is wrap the website.  Oh, that, and read your entire contact list (WTF?)

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#306

On Wed, 12 Feb 2014 06:29:55 -0800 (PST)
Vince Mulhollon <vincemulhollon@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wednesday, February 12, 2014 1:59:34 AM UTC-6, cykros wrote:
> > Providing awareness of the extent of unnecessary and overreaching permissions
> 
> My small town three office credit union has an app for people too lazy
or baffled to use the website.  All it does is wrap the website.  Oh,
that, and read your entire contact list (WTF?)

That is creepy.  I was looking for an article about an app that reveals
to you what each app on your system has permission to do.  Found this
instead, which is similar but not exactly what I remember reading the
last time.

"http://www.androidauthority.com/clueful-privacy-advisor-app-review-315440/"

iOS apps don't even tell you what permissions they need.  It's crazy.
These days you can get people to do almost anything in the name of
'convenience' and 'user experience.'

That said, I'm not a big fan of McAfee's software.  I would be very
skeptical of installing anything of his on my phone/tablet in fears it
would install itself permanently, nag me to death, and bog the system
down until it runs at a slow crawl.

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#308

On 2/12/2014 9:55 AM, RS Wood wrote:
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> That said, I'm not a big fan of McAfee's software.  I would be very
>
Neither is McAfee "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKgf5PaBzyg"

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2phar <none@example.com> wrote:
> On 2/12/2014 9:55 AM, RS Wood wrote:
>>
>> That said, I'm not a big fan of McAfee's software.  I would be very
>>
> Neither is McAfee "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKgf5PaBzyg"

Yea, given that he wasn't with the company since before 
windows 95 existed, I generally cut the man some slack
when it comes to McAfee Antivirus.  Most of the nastier
things it does that people hate weren't even possible 
on windows 3.1 and earlier.

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