I’m going to try to be objective to the write this post. An of the bullets that use when the users of iOS want to attack to Android is it of it security. Google launches patches every month, but manufacturers are taken their time to them available to your users, so that, when a threat is discovered, this may take months to protect an Android device users. Seems that few could deny the claims earlier, unless we call Adrian Ludwig…
Yesterday, the director of Google Security spoke about the improvements that the search engine company has included in its mobile platform, some so important improvements that they would have put Android to the height of iOS in terms of security concerns, ensuring that “for most models of threat (iOS and Android) are virtually identical in terms of the capabilities at the level of platform“.
Adrián Ludwing: “Android is just as safe as iOS”
Ludwing responded to issues that compared them Pixel with them iPhone and to the question of if them two are equal with regard to security, the director of security of Google replied a “safe” and added that soon “will be best“. The reason that makes you think Ludwig that Android will be safer than iOS in the future is the opening of the Google mobile operating system, although it did not detail on what to do to improve the safety of Android.
Initially, as casual user of Ubuntu I can understand that an open source system is very safe since the “good” hackers found failures at the same time that the “bad guys”, reported them and these are corrected within hours… sometimes. As far as I know, ALL Android phones are vulnerable to what is known as “Dirty COW”, a vulnerability that was discovered no less than 9 years ago, so I think that openness is not always synonymous with safety.
Ludwig also spoke of Safety Net, a service that scans about 400 million devices and some 6,000 million applications every day. But also spoke of Stagefight, a serious security breach, to remove iron to the topic saying that “right now, we do not know any confirmed his farm case“. That in my town is called throwing balls outside…
What strikes me a little is that the Google security director says that both platforms are “equal” and don’t say that they are “better” right now. In my opinion, really think what he says, I would say that Android is more secure than iOS, but which are not the same. In any case, that is what Ludwig and I tried to publish it being objective, although I doubt that it has succeeded.
