Just uninstall it by using Canta, no? Note: I'm not from India
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It would be really funny to hack that system and force on everyone's flashlights and vibration
And downright hilarious to compromise financials and MFA.
It's be a real riot to make a botnet
Take long videos on the front and back, silently, then display them with a message they're "published" along with their photos.
There'd probably be a coup.
Soon available in every country, no doubt, as obviously we all deserve to be... protected from our-naughty-selves.
Credit where due: Apple saying ‘fuck you, make us.’
You only hear about the "fuck you, make us" part and not the compromises they make afterwards. But how can you even tell?
Or the usual, "we had no other options" after the fact they're revealed to be compromised. And the cult swiftly tries to ignore this.
Apple fanboys really love defending a company that doesn't even open source it's code. It's like being sold asbestos in the 1900s just because it was marketed aggressively.
"Yep thats the shit"
Smartphones are now dead in India
They have already been arresting people for using VPNs: https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/man-booked-for-using-vpn-in-j-ks-rajouri-3rd-such-case-in-2-days-5612508
But is it illegal to remove it ?
Well then use ADB
Read the article
Then you’ll still have no idea like me :)
Union Minister for Communications Jyotiraditya Scindia claimed on Tuesday that the Sanchar Saathi app, a fraud reporting app the government wants pre-installed on all devices, will be optional and can be deleted by users.
“... If you don't want Sanchar Saathi, you can delete it. It is optional... It is our duty to introduce this app to everyone. Keeping it in their devices or not is up to the user,” he said to reporters.
So it sounds like it can be removed, though I can't help but feel like it might leave malicious artifacts (this is based on absolutely no evidence and is purely speculation on my part)
In recent Android devices, you can disable and even uninstall apps for users. But for some system apps, when you go back the disabled apps info page, the "Force Stop" button isn't greyed out like it should be anymore.
Like why is the force stop button active when the app is disabled. And this usually happens in OEM devices stock ROMs, not on custom ROMs afaik.
It's either a bug or intentional. Can't tell.
Did a pinch of digging and this Stack Overflow Question seems to be the best "all in one" answer to your question.
To try to explain from what I'm seeing:
- Disable stops any "autostart" services/processes from starting. It also tries to gracefully stop any background processes and services.
- Force Stop kills those processes forcefully (but doesn't necessarily stop them from auto starting again).
- Its possible (though unlikely) for you to Disable an app and there to be a delay for all processes and services to die.
- Thus it can be useful to Disable, then Force Stop if you really want something dead.
That said, in most cases it looks like its more likely to be a "UI Bug". Theoretically, if no processes are running for an app, the Force Stop button is supposed to be deactivated (greyed out), but this check is apparently not very authoritatively checked, and defaults to Active if the OS isn't sure.
Hopefully any wrong info I've stated will summon a true expert to explain better.
What does the app actually do? They call it an anti-fraud app, but I don't understand what fraud it's supposed to fight?
It probably scans installed apps, settings that could compromise access (for eg USB debugging, bootloader unlocking), apk files in storage, etc all while sending juicy infometrics to an unsecured database
Next in news: a govt database was leaked...
Can someone summerize the article, for some reason it thinks I'm using AdBlock despite not and won't let me actually read it
ahh the good old "it is for your own good"
Thanks, that is indeed dystopian
If only there were a simple easy to flash ROMs onto phones that normies could do. Just plug it into a computer, run a program, follow instructions and have lineage is or so on it.
Bro I got news for you
Can lineage do that now? 😮 That would be great! There are so many cheap phones that lineage supports, it would make it very affordable for people in India to make a large step towards degoogling!
Well, there's a web installer (Chromium only because it's using very unsafe features of course) that is used by ProtonAOSP and GrapheneOS currently. LineageOS people don't want to add that because it's impossible to troubleshoot if it doesn't work, would make Firefox users feel left out, and because the normal installation procedure is a matter of some tech literacy.
And there are hundreds of native wrappers around fastboot (look up "fastboot GUI") and ones specifically for installing ROMs (look up "LineageOS installer". All of which break in all sorts of ways. The only example I can think of for a somewhat good one is the embedded for MiTool, the tool specifically for officially unlocked Xiaomi devices. Well, good luck getting a Xiaomi phone officially unlocked, however.
Almost forgot the thing I said "I have news for you" for. The closest thing to what you described (that is guaranteed to work) is opening the LineageOS website and blindly following instructions there. They are really specific and it would be really difficult to misunderstand.
Graphene can also do that.
Could be cool to support it for lineageos. GrapheneOS is limited to a single brand and there are many brands in India and around the world which will be forced by the Indian government to install that spyware.