Any competent malware developer must have already figured out how to exploit this the first time around. Now that every single one of those malware developers has learned it is still exploitable, the payload they've spent the past month perfecting can now be deployed in the wild.
So, can someone explain why a disastrous worm hasn't already swept the globe and infected 99% of Android devices on the planet within ten minutes of being released in the wild?
1. Text payload to victim
2. Payload executes on victim's phone and texts itself to all of the victim's contacts
3. Repeat
Assuming the average Android phone owner has 20 contacts who also have Android phones, and assuming also that texting the payload to those 20 people would take two minutes to complete, the infection would spread exponentially and only take ten minutes for the initial text to result in the infection of 10 billion devices worldwide.
Why am I not currently being bombarded with MMS video texts from infected devices? It frankly seems a bit miraculous. Did Google set up an emergency arrangement with all of the carriers to block suspicious video texts so this wouldn't happen?
So, can someone explain why a disastrous worm hasn't already swept the globe and infected 99% of Android devices on the planet within ten minutes of being released in the wild?
1. Text payload to victim
2. Payload executes on victim's phone and texts itself to all of the victim's contacts
3. Repeat
Assuming the average Android phone owner has 20 contacts who also have Android phones, and assuming also that texting the payload to those 20 people would take two minutes to complete, the infection would spread exponentially and only take ten minutes for the initial text to result in the infection of 10 billion devices worldwide.
Why am I not currently being bombarded with MMS video texts from infected devices? It frankly seems a bit miraculous. Did Google set up an emergency arrangement with all of the carriers to block suspicious video texts so this wouldn't happen?