Google abandoned the WebView holder, Android tool for viewing web pages for apps without having to open the browser, all versions below the KitKat. This means that most of the Android phones are vulnerable to security breaches and based on Gartner’s numbers this means “abandon” 930 million devices.
Is the Google lost his mind? Is Google to simply be capitalist to encourage users to buy new phones? Or will the company reasons to make the decision you made?
The answer is given in detail by computer security expert Tod Beardsley, Rapid7 element. In an online publication are detailed all the details of this serious situation – because with or without Google, 930 million unprotected devices is an alarming situation. And the expert alike attacks Google, you know give some reason the company.
“If the affected version [WebView] is before Android 4.4, as a rule do not develop updates ourselves, but consider the solutions shipped with the complaint report. In addition to notifying the manufacturing partners, we can not act on any complaint that affects versions prior to Android 4.4 and are not accompanied by a solution, “said Google in official response.
This seems to be a clear sign that the company can, but may not want to upgrade. As Tod Beardsley points out, never saw a corrections policy where users have to submit their own solutions.
In a second response to Google said it would provide corrections to the partners in case anyone provide the AOSP version of Android – development version. It is proof that Google does not want and will not do anything about the situation.
But even if it did, the update would have to go through the nature of parceios manufacturers and would still have to go through the validation of telecom operators. And this pyramid that also affects the Android update process as the operating system in general.
In another intervention, Google states that no longer supports third-party devices and have the Android Browser, native browser for several versions of the software was built home in mobile phones. The only solution is to migrate to a newer version of Android – something that for many manufacturers is not even an option.
However, the security expert also believes Google’s decision as “reasonable”, considering that this is not an industry standard support older versions of software. It was also recorded criticism of the fact that Google does not have a life cycle and support program for Android.
The problem is there for all – especially the hackers – and so the resolution can come from various entities, considers Tod Beardsley. To the community of programmers.
At the end of the expert reinforces the idea that realizes the fact that companies do not want to support many old versions of the same software, but considers that in this case there are irresponsible because it affects almost one billion devices.
And the case comes just days after Microsoft accused Google of unethical conduct after the giant search engines have decided to make public a vulnerability affecting Windows and would be corrected in just two days.
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