Even though the FBI and more have been exposed by Anonymous, US government he doesn't fool around when it comes to security.
The employees of the Defense Department They cannot use any smartphone, they are only allowed to use BlackBerry... or so it was until recently 😀
It happens that they are allowed to use Android Also, although I don't know any device with Android (at the moment only one device Dell with Android 2.2 has been approved, the Dell Venue), this is undoubtedly a great step forward for this OS that is already a great one to defeat 😉
They will have realized that iOS it's not on the list, even though it has a really sizeable market share. It happens that they cannot use an OS that they will not be able to study, review the source code, a closed OS that does not provide the guarantees they need, because these devices will not be used by the HotDogs seller of the park, they will be used daily by the people in charge of the defense of the USA. This is not to mention, that all traffic goes through Apple's servers, you would certainly have to be crazy to allow apple devices to be used.
Why they allow Android it's not a secret, OpenSource it is his greatest virtue 😀
Anyway, what good news for everyone 😉
With all due respect, the more unknown the OS is for the world, the better in these cases, and without a doubt, Android is not very good to say on the subject of security, IOS is too well known, so for my part I think, Although the RIM system is a little "backward", it is better that way for these cases.
... the more unknown the sun is to the world, the better in these cases ...
This method is known as security by darkness, and at least in computing it has been repeatedly shown that it is one of the most violated methods.
Look how interesting this text that Bruce Schneier wrote about it in the preface to Applied Cryptography:
If I take a letter, I lock it in a safe, it's hidden somewhere
place in New York, and then I tell you to read the letter, this is not
it's security. It is darkness. On the other hand, if I take the letter, I lock it up
in a safe, and I hand him the safe along with the
specifications of your design and a thousand other identical safes with their
combinations, so that both you and the best box openers
strongholds in the world can study the locking mechanism, and still
You can open the safe to read the letter, this is security.
Hugo: error, when I refer to unknown, I do not mean that it is closed-source, which is what you mean. I mean that it is little used, that it is simple, that it does not have so many tools, programs or whatever they want to call them, so it becomes more difficult (not impossible) for them to violate the security of the device.
In that case I misunderstood you, but for all intents and purposes, it is the same: security by darkness. The reality is that it just doesn't work except in the very short term.
By the way, if I remember correctly, not long ago several news sites reported how Anonymous had breached the servers of a computer security consulting company for federal entities (HBGary Federal), thanks (among other things) to the fact that said company used a proprietary software that contained a bug they were obviously unaware of.
Well, Anonymous has violated the same proprietary soft as free. As for android, what I want to say is that in the end anyone is violated, the only difference is that using RIM it would take a while, the problem that I clarify in the news is that Android is not the most indicated, because in these moments is the most insecure, just that
what happens that anonymus is always at the forefront, they are not going to stop if it is paid or not.