Google Invites Security Researchers to Debug Android

August 21st, 2008

In a move that could help it avoid an iPhone 3G-like software drama, Google wants bug hunters to test its Android mobile platform. On Monday, the Android Security Team posted a message to introduce itself to the security research and vulnerability communities.Android is Google’s Linux-based mobile development platform, which also contains a collection of standard applications that can be installed on a mobile device.

“As you may expect, building and maintaining a secure mobile platform is a difficult task,” the team wrote. “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.”

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