Google, T-Mobile too mum over Android security?

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When it comes to telling customers about security weaknesses, there's a fine line between alerting customers and inviting attacks. With
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, I think the companies are erring on the side of inadequate disclosure.
I've been testing a review model of the G1, and
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. Only by dint of much pestering and more than a week of waiting did I find out from Google what was in those
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And T-Mobile has been pretty quiet, too. (I'm waiting for comment from the company about its choices.)
I'm not the type to blithely ignore patches. Sure, I'm not convinced the security patches I download for Adobe Reader, Microsoft Windows, and Firefox are flawless, but I think the odds are good enough they'll be an improvement that I install them.


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may be new products like android take time to function properly after its repeated updates for security and performance.

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