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Please, just stop downloading apps from unofficial stores: Android users hit with 'unkillable malware'

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Meh

Armed with its powerful root privileges....

I guess Android's security model still needs work if something can waltz in from outside and assume root privilege. I am of the opinion that the "no user has admin authority" model has an inherent flaw to it. The mechanisms of privilege escalation and control do not get exercised enough to iron the bugs out.

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