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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Yes I am.

    I spend a long time of my career in IT Sec.

    80% of android users will freely install whatever APK from wherever.

    Info stealer infected fake apps are a massive risk to a huge part of the user base.

    Yes, it will get a little bit more complicated to sideload. But nobody is prevented from it.

    And everybody that is against user protection (and yes, this is fucking user protection, just not for you) is invited next Christmas to de-worm the android devices of my family without wiping them.

    EDIT for all those that only read the memes. Sideloading will NOT be disabled. You have to jump though extra hoops.

    Yes, the way they do this is not even testable yet and we can argue over details.

    I support the principal idea, as someone who had to live with the fallout of people who installed “it support apps” because someone told them to



  • The first thing the Nazis did when they marched into the Netherlands, the took the religious information from the citizens register to deport all Jews.

    Oppressive regimes are using information to track down dissidents and let them vanish.

    If you want to blast out every detail of your life, be m guest.

    But forcing your idea of life and safety down everyone’s throught is not the way to go.