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This is Android's new 'advanced flow' for sideloading apps without verification, includes one-day waiting period (9to5google.com)
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[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world -1 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Technically installing an app allows continuous spying instead of one-time offloading. It's an actual consideration with spyware like Pegasus: it might've been used as a bug to listen to offline conversations.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca -1 points 43 minutes ago (1 children)

What % of users side load apps vs what % of users had someone else install a bug on their phone?

It's a situation that statistically doesn't happen, and now every legitimate user is being inconvenienced to stop it? This if like agree verification laws being sold as "protecting children" as an excuse to spy on and control people.

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 1 points 19 minutes ago* (last edited 17 minutes ago)

Oh really, so the Pegasus attacks on Galina Timchenko and dozens of other people, including Jamal Khashoggi, never happened? Or, do you seriously not understand that the impact on one journalist is greater than on a thousand nobodies like you?

Google could've implemented better measures to circumvent bugging, like iPhones' 'lockdown' mode, but claiming that infecting with spyware never happens on Android is plain disingenuous and idiotic.

[–] Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

The OS is the spyware, they're ensuring you cannot remove it.

[–] njordomir@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

10 years ago I would have called that a stretch. After Windows 11, there is no doubt that Windows is spyware.