• Jumpyer@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    A gentle reminder that “sideloading” is optional and probably won’t be easy to activate, so your mom is safe.

    Scammers could already find a way in by using certificates or something like that.

    • vmachiel@alien.topB
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      1 year ago

      I just hope companies won’t pull their apps from the store and force the sideloading of their horrible extra tracker filled version.

      If that doesn’t happen in practice this will be a win.

    • based-richdude@alien.topB
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      1 year ago

      Scammers could already find a way in by using certificates or something like that.

      This is way harder and much more complicated than you’re implying. You basically need a targeted campaign against you and you’d have to be the only target for a period of time.

    • __theoneandonly@alien.topB
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      1 year ago

      Yeah until the big apps decide they’re big enough to get users to switch off the App Store. Then grandma is trying to follow instructions from an email to install Facebook and disable the protections, and now she’s screwed it up and there’s malware.

      Every trip home for the holidays in about getting all the crap to make her computer usable again. Now I’ll have to do that to her phone, too??

      • T-Nan@alien.topB
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        1 year ago

        EU doesn’t even have sideloading yet and you are already creating fake scare-fantasies in your head, my god lol