Google Bans SMS Spying App From Android Market

[phandroid]

Earlier this week DLP Mobile launched Secret SMS Replicator, an application that is installed on a host phone and secretly forwards SMS messages to another handset. The function of the app didn’t sit well with Google, and in a move fairly atypical of the way apps are handled in the Android Market, Google has removed [...]

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[ElasticNinja]

Good to hear

 

[Hrethgir]

Good to hear

Would have been better to hear that an app like this would have never made it to the market in the first place. I don't want the Android Market locked down like Apple's App Store, but something needs to be done to catch such blatently bad apps like this BEFORE they get onto the Market.

 

[SoulTerror]

Yeah some apps should just not be made.

 

[tx_dbs_tx]

True, this would quickly get out of hand and very soon it would be completely mandatory that all Android smartphones be running a firewall and spyware apps. I hope that day never comes!

 

[alextop30]

Just a bit of criticism here. I agree that apps like this should never have been made but don't you guys believe it is a little hypocritical that google would remove it while they "accidentally" pickup information and deliver it to the government. I think we know the definition of privacy and it should be enforced on all levels.

 

[italianwjt]

Just a bit of criticism here. I agree that apps like this should never have been made but don't you guys believe it is a little hypocritical that google would remove it while they "accidentally" pickup information and deliver it to the government. I think we know the definition of privacy and it should be enforced on all levels.

Well put, I couldn't agree more.

 

[pool_shark]

What's privacy?

 

[Drhyde]

Gah! Zombie thread!

 

[alberta]

Now I won't have to worry that my gf will spy on my phone :d