I don’t know if this happens to anyone else but I was reading Wired Magazine’s article on Google’s Open Source Android OS and all I could think of was the security implications of users being able to install anything they wanted onto their smart phones. I kept trying to pull my mind away and focus on the promise Android brings to this market. I am excited about it but security concerns keep sneaking their way in to disrupt those thoughts. Now I don’t want to reopen the debate on whether open source is more secure than proprietary source code. Better people than me have engaged in that debate; I can’t add any additional value there.
My point is more that it can be hard to get excited about new technology and improvements knowing what we know. It is times like this that I wonder why I couldn’t have taken the blue pill…
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