Google’s Sundar Pichai Didn’t Say Android’s Openness Makes It Less Secure

Sundar Pichai, the head of Android at Google discussed about the Android Security and its Open source. Sources said that Pichai describing about the OS openness which makes it less secure. Company has already admitting that it is inherently less secured, due to its openness. Pichai didn’t repeat the same line instead he made some points which led the conversation away arguing that the Openness actually makes it more secure, not less. His point that the disintegration caused from OEMs shipping is outdated that’s why it less secure software, leads to Non-Google insecurity is quite good and the up to date operating system’s quality could be compared to iOS. He’s trying to have it in both ways, if up to date versions is secured so why they still shipping the old versions to Carriers and failing to provide the updates.

Pichai said at Mobile World Congress “Sorry, the premise of the question is because Android is open, it has more security issues? Respectfully, I’m not sure that’s a correct premise of the question. Open platforms historically undergo a lot of scrutiny, but there are a lot of advantages to having an open source platform from a security standpoint. I would argue that it’s the best way for a platform to be secure, because every researcher in the world can inspect it, every developer in the world can inspect it, and I think that contributes a lot to Android security. It was built to be very, very secure. The thing that you’re seeing is because Android is an open platform, many people can ship Android in many different ways and so there are some partners when they ship devices”

But unaware of such flaws in the Android Phone, user still buying the Smartphone’s and regularly using it. If a hacker wants to exploit lots of phones, he will attack the tighter Controlled platform with Small market share because study had proved that 99.8 percent of mobile Malware targets to Google OS.