Sorry to be the bearer of bad news to all you Android users but this article doesnt make good reading lol

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...king-data.html

An update will be released, story over

Android is an operating system after all so i'm pretty sure that this happens with iOS and Windows so know big deal personally

I am glad I don't have the Iphone, over priced and too fragile. no doubt the Iphone have leak problems, just no one found them yet

I don't think it is a big problem and until someone opened their big mouth and shoved the problem on the news I wonder how many people knew of it before.

This is what annoys me, oh we found a security problem on a certain OS, lets tell the whole world before it is fixed.

I like my little wildfire, lets say i seem to have less toruble with it than a few people at work have with their over priced Iphone.

Using an open wifi network is always risky regardless of the device!

I don't like Steve's ghetto, so no. It's a never ending story, a security hole is found, a security hole is plugged, cue the next hole. As a software developer you can try to find and fix all problems, but you never will. Even if this case seems a little reckless, any critical information should be transferred encrypted.

Nope. Hate the look of the iphone with its awful thick bezel above the screen. Vile. Hate iOS and detest Itunes.

Much prefer the look of my Desire HD. Love what i can do with Android and like said, an update will be released and story will be over.

"Tut Tut Dont you wish you had got an iphone"

Nope. My Galaxy S is better IMHO. It's also half the price on monthly contract. "If you havent got an iphone... you're £17 a month better off".

mtaylor1811 - can you name one OS or application that has never had an upgrade or spotfix for a security issue?

As a user of Android 2.3.4 this does not effect me. And why is my cheap Orange San Francisco on 2.3.4 when it was released on 2.1? Well there are groups of modders who, because Android is open source, happily take up the challenge to adapt new faster firmwares to all kinds of different phones. The beuaty of Android. Mind you it does take a small modicum intelligence to implement things!

Of course if you are a bit slowwww you can stick with the ... erm... simplicity, yes, simplicity of iOS. And pay though the nose.

Is that a trick question??

Windows, osx, ios, Android, apps on the marketplace and on itunes etc etc.......

I don't think you read what I wrote!

Just don't be stupid enough to use public wifi. simples

So no, my iPod Touch is enough for me, i'll stick with Android in a phone

I was suprised to see this on the front page of the Metro this morning, it must be a slow news day.

I already have an iPhone for work and it's had its share of security flaws, so a pretty poor troll by the OP.

You can always use a vpn connection

No I hate Iphone.

Is BT Openzone/BT fon unsafe then?

Very unsafe. Don't you watch or read the news?

I think this is over cooked, it's very firesheep like, open wifi is not encrypted so should be treated with caution. Anything you do on open wifi can be read / captured unless you are on an encrypted VPN or SSL connection i.e HTTPS login to a site.

This is obviously able to happen because of poor Android security too, but it will be addressed and fixed. Not the end of the world though. People really need to be educated about open wifi.

This kind of thread makes me laugh. There are people on this thread who are saying it isn't an issue and it'll be patched, but they're the same people crowing over Apple security flaws and telling Apple fans who say it isn't an issue that they're in denial. Of course, it happens the other way round too. Fans of both Apple and Android can be hypocritical.

All operating systems have some vulnerabilities these days. There's no point gloating over an Android flaw today when an iOS flaw will be found tomorrow. Same goes the other way.

One of my friends is still on a 2G iPhone but another has the iPhone 4. I like the screen, don't like too much else about it. I prefer it to anything by Samsung but prefer most HTC devices to the iPhone.

I think it depends on the case, this only effects unsecured wifi connections, which are already known to be an issue with data leakage as per the recent firesheep stories.

However some of Apple's stuff has been in my opinion more annoying and a bigger issue for users like repeated alarm clock bugs for all users several times over the last few years.

Personally I would class that as a bigger issue than a potential security flaw which is rare and relies on the user already doing something known to be insecure in the first place.

I do wish i had a iphone.

I cannot see how to get my android 2.2 to save sent items to the imap server. On the iphone there is a option to chose either phone or server but i dont see this on android and its been driving me crazy.

Also i have a sent items folder on the imap server called 'sent items' but android persists in creating its own called 'sent',

you obviously have no clue...

Why can't we all just get along!

Seriously, public wi-fi is just that, public. If you choose to use it, you do so at your own risk regardless of what phone operating system you use.

Can we pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease stop using this kind of crap to re-hash the iPhone versus Android arguments it's SO tedious!

Haha! your right!! Sorry about that