Google chairman Eric Schmidt drew big laughs at the-Gartner Symposium/ITxpo this week but it most likely wasn’t on purpose. ZDNet reports that Schmidt told attendees are Gartner’s big IT conference that Android is “more secure than the iPhone,” which prompted laughter from the crowd. ZDNet also reports that Schmidt speculated that “in the distant future there would be an assumption that nothing is secure and that security will be devised on a per app basis for each user,” which probably wasn’t much comfort to the IT professionals in the audience. While concerns about Android’s security are often overblown, it is true that the platform has become a magnet for hackers who want to seed their malware across users’ mobile devices.



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