* Posts by KBKarma

2 publicly visible posts • joined 1 Mar 2012

Google yanks fake Android battery monitor

KBKarma

Re: "its intentions were revealed by the permissions it seeks (basically, everything)"

The real BatteryBot Pro app has the following permissions:

Read contents of USB storage

Modify or delete contents of USB storage

Run at startup

Control vibration

The free version has the following:

Run at startup

So, the fact that the malicious one tried to get all of the permissions is a big red flag.

Blighty's Post Office computer system goes titsup

KBKarma

Re: Re: Re: Re: Leap year glitch

It'll end up being solved by him following a pizza delivery truck and eating the right tin of spam in the right supermarket. Mark my words.

(yes, I just made an account to respond to this)