khafra comments on New Year's Predictions Thread (2011) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: khafra 03 January 2011 04:30:32AM 0 points [-]

Also seems pretty low--83% certain android on so many platforms is pretty secure?

Comment author: shokwave 03 January 2011 04:43:25AM *  2 points [-]

I doubt Hyena believes that: there are already Android viruses, but none of them have caused a small crisis in the mobile phone industry.

Comment author: Hyena 03 January 2011 05:25:49PM 1 point [-]

Right. I think we might have one sufficiently dangerous or infectious that people actually care.

Comment author: shokwave 03 January 2011 05:35:32PM 0 points [-]

I know of at least one geocaching/wifi exploit to achieve non-GPS locating; a virus using that plus having some use for the phone's location would certainly scare enough people to start a small crisis.