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F-Droid has warned that over the past few months, Google has pushed a malicious programme known as the Android Developer Verifier to as many as 4 billion Android devices (f-droid.org)
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[-] bad1080@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago

afaik this will be for corporations only and not sold to consumers directly

[-] vatlark@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Oh, I hadn't heard that. Is that a common business model for phones?

[-] bad1080@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

i mean it has been a thing for sure, motorola builds the radio and wifi systems in cop cars for example. the phone part may be new but it seems to be of the idea "corporations may need privacy but consumers don't deserve it".

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