Google says: Hack the Android!

Davey Winder
Wednesday, 20 August 2008 01:20

Business IT - Open Source

Which is interesting, because this news coincides with an open letter to security research and vulnerability disclosure communities from the Android Security Team which admits that building the platform has been "a difficult task."

It goes on to confess "While we have found and fixed many of our own bugs as well as flaws in other open source projects, we realize that the discovery of additional security issues in a system this large and complex is inevitable."

Which is why the security team has taken the bold decision to reach out to the security researcher community and ask for help. "We do appreciate and encourage responsible disclosure" it says "especially since Android will be deployed on many different devices that will require a large amount of coordination to patch."

In effect the team are saying hack Android and help us fix it. "Help from security researchers in the form of usable bug reports and responsible time lines will greatly assist us in securing the ecosystem of Android devices as quickly as possible."

Android vulnerability bulletins will credit responsible reporters of any flaws.