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To: sylvester80 who wrote (20330)	7/5/2012 5:32:59 PM
From: zax	2 Recommendations Respond to of 32692

Its official. Apple's App store distributing malware. And in a sign of things to come, this title came to Android first. X-D First iOS Malware Discovered in Apple App Store By David Gilbert: Subscribe to David's RSS feed July 5, 2012 4:02 PM GMT ibtimes.co.uk *A Russian security company has uncovered what it claims is the first case of malware to be found in Apple's App Store.* Kaspersky Lab has published a report on its Securelist blog about an app named 'Find and Call' which is a piece of malware which steals your phonebook details and sends spam SMS messages to all your contacts, claiming to be from you. Only last week the iPhone celebrated its fifth birthday and security experts were congratulating Apple on preventing malware from entering the App Store, thanks in the main to its walled-garden approach. Kaspersky Lab has contacted Apple regarding the malware but so far the app has not been removed from the App Store [as of 15:32 on 6 July]. The malicious Find and Call app was also found in the Android Google Play store, though instances of malware on the Android platform are altogether more common. The app description is very muddled, and doesn't really tell you what the app does: "Find and call is a new technology for your mobile phone. For the first time in the world, you may not only make calls from your mobile phone, but also search for subscribers you need. Free calls from your mobile phone to domains, email, Skype, social networks. Forget about numbers!!!" It seems to be a translation from another language into English.

To: sylvester80 who wrote (20330)	7/5/2012 5:39:45 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32692

“It’s not clear that we really need patents in most industries,” said Posner, referring to the slew of features in smartphones that are legally protected. “You just have this proliferation of patents. It’s a problem.” If we don't, then are tech companies going to spend the R&D dollars, the development dollars, the marketing dollars to bring new shit to market? it would seem the better strategy would be to wait, and copy. But if everybody does that, no innovation. Not saying this as a OS partisan.