We’ve heard a lot about-Android security flaws-this year but what happens when Android users voluntarily allow third parties to turn their smartphones into text-messaging spambots?-BBC News directs our attention to a new breed of Android apps that promise users cash in exchange for letting spammers take advantage of their unlimited texting plans to send out messages to mobile phones around the world. Adaptive Mobile researcher-Cahal McDaid tells BBC News that the new apps tap into “a huge market in sending text messages as cheaply as possible around the world.” McDaid also says that he and his team have seen smartphones that have downloaded one of the apps send out “thousands” of text messages. Just because you can make money from



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