If they’re already into your phone there’s so many legitimate ways to extract your data. The ability to sideload an app won’t impact that.
If they’re already into your phone there’s so many legitimate ways to extract your data. The ability to sideload an app won’t impact that.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
The OS is the spyware, they’re ensuring you cannot remove it.
njordomir@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
10 years ago I would have called that a stretch. After Windows 11, there is no doubt that Windows is spyware.
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
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 2 weeks ago
Oh really, so the Pegasus attacks on Galina Timchenko and dozens of other people, including Jamal Khashoggi, never happened?
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.
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
“statistically doesn’t happen” is not equivalent to “has never happened”. It means the number of times it has happened is such a statistically insignificant % of the user base that it does not pass the smell test for being the reason to inconvenience every user.