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

[stef]

On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 04:06:03PM +0200, Stephan Neuhaus wrote:
> 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?

it's rule of thumb. right? there might be exceptions (i know of exactly one),
which strengthen the rule ;)

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