Another problem Android app

[Glenn]

Researchers from anti-virus provider Symantec have outted a gaming application in Google's Android Market that tracks users' whereabouts so they can be secretly monitored in real-time.

The free app is known as Tapsnake, which bills itself as an Android variation of a video game that has been around for three decades. What the description doesn't say is that every 15 minutes, the app uploads the user's GPS coordinates to a server that can be monitored by people running a separate $4.99 app known as GPS Spy, which is made by the same developer shop.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/16/andoid_stalking_app/

[Simon]

I wonder how many more there are, yet to be discovered?

[Rik]

Probably too many.

[Lance]

Suddenly Apple's grip on the apps for their devices is starting to make sense!