CISA gives federal agencies just 3 days to patch

Interestingly this seems to be an attack against the modem. I had thought modems were well separated from the rest of the phone by now.

    • Billegh@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      23 days ago

      Sadly, it’s never just been “installing”. If it isn’t on “the store”, there’s always been a hurdle to getting it on your device. They just keep putting bigger and scarier hurdles in place.

      • dropdrip@lemmy.mlEnglish
        4·
        22 days ago

        Yes and using their terms like “side-loading” is another introduced hurdle. Using that term reinforces that new, imaginary hurdle. It’s new-speak. It’s your personal-property; it’s your computer; you have every legal-right to install what you want on your computers. Google is attempting to do something new: dictate absolutely your private-property. That’s absurd. Don’t even try and defend it.

      • MoreZombies@quokk.auEnglish
        11·
        22 days ago

        Well half the problem people have is all the hurdles Google puts in the way.

        If I install a game on my PC through Steam or by downloading the files directly instead of the Windows Store then it’s still just installing no matter if Microsoft put a thousand "are you sure?"s in the way.

        • kuneho@pawb.socialEnglish
          1·
          22 days ago

          Those are installing, yes. But I think there’s no such thing as sideloading vs installing, since, sideloading is a way of installing stuff.

          for instance, if I wanted to install an app on my BlackBerry Z30, I needed a special tool running in your browser to do so. So a 2nd device, with a protocol. That second device surely then “just” installed my software. But I would call that sideloading, since I needed a 2nd device that has the way to install stuff on my phone.

          if I can just click the apk on my phone to get it installed… then that’s installing. But if I need my PC and a special tool (e.g. adb) to do the installation for me (again, 2nd device, custom software etc… and there’s no other way) then it’s sideloading again.

          Installing from Steam or Windows Store is not sideloading, since you don’t need anything special. And using a tool that’s already on your target device is nothing special IMO.

          If Steam would need to run on a seperate device to install games on your PC, that surely can be sideloading. Also, if I buy a Switch game from Nintendo Store and tell it to install it on my Switch, it’s sideloading again.

          This is how I like to thing of the word sideloading, at least.

          But overall, sideloading is installing - so in the end, there’s no such thing as sideloading anyway.