HTC smart phones have become extremely popular, extremely among the youth. The combination of the impressive Android platform, and sleek and smart looks is what has made HTC gain market share in the highly competitive mobile phone market. However there has been recent news that might be a cause of concern for the HTC smart phone users. Apparently a security team has claimed to have discovered a serious security flaw in HTC Android devices, which basically allows applications to get access to private data of the users, including confidential information such as email addresses, phone numbers etc.

According to the security team that exposed this vulnerability, the issue is with those phones running HTC’s latest software version, which includes the EVO 3D, the EVO 4G and the Thunderbolt in particular. Basically HTC had made some recent modification to the Android OS, and a result of that a number of tools can now collect loads of information about the user. Not only that, but this private information can also easily be made available on the web.

The security team that exposed this flaw has contacted HTC, and though there has been no official word from HTC regarding this, there is little doubt that they are working around the clock to rectify the issue.


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With this issue being exposed, the debate between open source software, such as Android versus the closed source software, such as Apple has once again risen to the surface. There is no doubt that an open system allows users to download numerous apps from a variety of third party developers, giving the users a lot of flexibility; however this issue has just highlighted that the flexibility can indeed come at a cost. For the time being, closed system users must be sniggering and saying ‘We told you so’. But even after HTC manages to fix the issue, there is little doubt that the debate will ever be put to bed.

Also, since HTC has been notified of this flaw, users are hoping that HTC will release an update of the OS to solve the situation soon. Till then if users want their private information to be safe, rooting the device is the only option. But that could mean your warranty will be void. Hence HTC users are certainly left in a tizzy for the time being, and hopefully HTC will respond the soonest possible to fix this pressing issue.

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Aakshey Talwar
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