Steven Levy: The Internet is a vast lawn with billions of mole-holes.
Nicole Perlroth: There is no indication that hackers have exploited the newly discovered flaw, and technology companies say they are working to fix the problem.
The Houston Chronicle: There's just something about this technology that leads police to view transparency as the enemy.
The Economist: A recent paper showed that the motion sensing gyroscopes in phones can be used to record speech even when the phone's microphone is switched off.
AVG: This malware hijacks the shutting down process of your mobile, so when the user turns the power off button to shut down their mobile, it doesn't really shut down. After pressing the power button, you will see the real shutdown animation, and the phone appears off. Although the screen is black, it is still on.
Graham Cluley: The good news is that Microsoft doesn't have any evidence to believe that the flaw has been exploited publicly to attack its customers. The bad news is that isn't proof that it hasn't happened, or that it won't happen now online criminals have been given the nod that such an attack might be possible.
The Economist: "It became clear that no matter how ready you think you are, you are never ready enough," notes a draft report jointly compiled by the Estonian authorities and Microsoft.
Mark Foulon: It has become clear that Internet access in itself is a vulnerability that we cannot mitigate. We have tried incremental steps and they have proven insufficient.
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