Snowden triggers flood of Crapware [was: Gruveo, more secure skype?]

Stephan Neuhaus stephan.neuhaus at tik.ee.ethz.ch
Thu Jul 24 07:06:03 PDT 2014


On 2014-07-24, 14:55, rysiek wrote:
> At the same time I find that the "runs on smartphones" rule
> actually does improve them, simply because "runs on smartphone" is
> a buzzword. It's oft-used today as a marketing ploy, and when I see
> it my "snakeoil sense" is actually tingling.

So if I mention to you that a certain app just happens to run on a
smartphone, your Spidey-sense would be tingling, no matter if the app
has had excellent threat modelling, code audit etc?

Stephan
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