Gphone vs. iPhone: The security debate begins

Posted by Sander_Marechal on Nov 9, 2007 9:35 AM EDT
ZDNet Asia; By Tom Espiner
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It wasn't long after Google announced its long-anticipated mobile plans this week that a debate emerged about the prospective security of the project's Linux-based platform. Can the open-source model for the platform, now known as Android, produce secure code? Will phones based on Android, dubbed "Gphones" by many, be more or less secure than Apple's iPhone, which has been developed using proprietary software? What will Android's developers be able to do to stop authors of malicious code from capitalizing on its openness?

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