I’m going to try to be objective to the write this post. One of the bullets that we use when iOS users want Android attack is that of 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. It seems that few could deny the above statements, unless you call us Adrián Ludwing…
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 questions comparing the Pixel with the iPhone and the question of whether the two are equal in terms of security, Google security director responded “sure” and added that soon “will be better“. 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.
In a principle, as user occasional of Ubuntu can understand that a system of code open is very safe since them hackers “good” found them failures to the same time that those “bad”, them reported and them these is corrected in 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 a 400 million of devices and some 6,000 million of applications all them days. 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.
