Arxan's "State of security in app economies"

How dangerous is it to your every-day life to have an app hacked? (Including the possibility that you may not even have downloaded that app - IOW, the total danger.)

How dangerous is it to cross the street in a busy city against the light, when drivers go through red lights too?

NYC would seem to be a better subject for these FUDD-mongers to write about. Crossing one street once in your life in mid-town Manhattan is probably a lot more dangerous than anything in this article - but millions of people do it hundreds of times a day, 5 days a week, every week.

It's proven fact that flying in an airliner is FAR less likely to cause your death than riding in (or driving) a car, yet ask the average person, and they're more afraid of flying than they are of texting while driving.

But FUDD sells papers (or website visits), "app found to be safe" doesn't.

It's an interesting article if you want to see which way we're pointing, tough. "I want my life to be absolutely, 100% guaranteed safe" and "I want absolute freedom to do anything I deem my right" are trying to pull in opposite directions at the same time, with the same strength, but it's what society is doing.

You want a phone app system that's 100% safe? You bring the phone into an approved store and they install an approved app. The phone is so tightly locked down that the software has to approve every keystroke and every nunber you dial. Still probably only 99% safe - and the 3 adults in the world who would go for it don't live where there's cellphone service. We want wide-open, no-restrictions Linux (most prople would probably prefer Windows) on our phones, but we want telepathic guards keeping us from doing anything that would cause us the slightest bit oof inconvenience. and if not doing that thing that would cause us inconvenience would, itself, cause inconvenience, it's the government's fault for not making reality such that we can do both things with no inconvenience.

(How many people, so far, have blamed Obama or the Secret Service, for the so-called sign language interpreter at Mandella's rites - when a word from Obama would have been interfering in the internal affairs of a sovereign nation? You hired him, I'm prohibited by law from having any say on whom you hire, but it's my fault if you hired the wrong guy? Can someone please explain how that works - I can't figure it out.)

We has met the emeny - and he's us.

 

What i dont understand is that free apps dont have to be cracked or "hacked" to be uploaded and shared so what do they mean by "free apps hacked"

 

Yeah "hacked" can mean a lot of things. Seems like panic-mongering to me