[notahacker]

Why would an application that was a music album be any more likely to be a virus than any other piece of software?

I'd have thought the bigger obstacle to people hearing your music is that people tend to prefer to listen to music in their music player of choice, in their own playlists or on shuffle. Then again, maybe creative control over how the songs that compose the album are listened to is part of the app's raison d'etre.

[gravypod]

> Why would an application that was a music album be any more likely to be a virus than any other piece of software?

That's not the concern here. How many applications do you have installed? Maybe 10-20 things for the average user. That's pushing it really now as most things are in browser.

Now given that, how many music albums do you own? 10, 20, 30? It's not uncommon to see people who have in the 100s (at least in college).

If you need to install something for every one of those albums that's a much harder space to audit then 1 music player.

[notahacker]

I don't think it's unusual for people to have more apps than music albums installed on a particular device, and people that audit them in any great detail are very much in the minority. I'd be surprised if the average person could even detail the differences in security implications between downloading an mp4 music video or downloading an executable application purporting to be a music video from the website of a band they like.

It's not exactly as if good old-fashioned music CDs never installed rootkits on users' computers either.

[Kip9000]

Well, that's what Mr.Robot taught us