Cheap, DIY Stalking to a Wi-Fi Hotspot Near You

DIY stalker boxes spy on Wi-Fi users cheaply and with maximum creep value | Ars Technica.

After reading this, I’m considering staying on 3G much more instead of constantly trolling for Wi-Fi hotspots.  Of course, nothing prevents the hotspot owners from doing this through their ISP’s and/or routers.  What’s new with this product is the turnkey solution it is.

Malware on Android Market

Malware on Android Market:

Aaron Gingrich, for Android Police:

Openness — the very characteristic of Android that makes us love it — is a double-edged sword. Redditor lompolo has stumbled upon a perfect example of that fact; he’s noticed that a publisher has taken ‘… 21 popular free apps from the market, injected root exploits into them and republished.’ The really scary part? ‘50k-200k downloads combined in 4 days.’

Uh-oh:

There’s another APK hidden inside the code, and it steals nearly everything it can: product ID, model, partner (provider?), language, country, and userID. But that’s all child’s play; the true pièce de résistance is that it has the ability to download more code. In other words, there’s no way to know what the app does after it’s installed, and the possibilities are nearly endless. [emphasis mine]

(Via Daring Fireball.)

Do I even have to say it?