[ubuntu-uk] <O/T>Tablet security!

[Juan J. Martínez]

On Thu, 2011-11-24 at 19:41 +0000, Pete wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Probably a mute point, and I have no wish to feed a troll, but on TV 
> earlier they were advertising 'Norton Tablet Security' for Android 
> tablets, given the close similarity between Android and LINUX / UNIX 
> based systems (I believe Android started out as open source based on 
> LINUX), is it now essential to install an Anti-virus / anti malware on 
> our systems?

It is supposed to be more secure that a vanilla Linux system*:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_%28operating_system%
29#Application_security

That said, any software can have bugs.

Regards,

Juan

* ie: a system with SELinux can implement a sandbox, although it's not
"out of the  box" as in Android:
http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/28545.html

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