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I Don't know what else I can do though, next up is switching to grapheneOS but I'm a ways off from that for now.
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Ok, that makes more sense. Hooray for stuff getting even worse...
Remote attestation itself being a questionable idea at best, so it's bad things creating a market for even worse workarounds.
Also telling that advertising and locking down devices are driven by the same companies...
Anyone up for the challenge? Or a better solution.
Fuck this bullshit. It's only going to get worse.
Can they ruin it faster i am sick of it already. Need to root the phone to get basic functionality, i need like 6-7 magisk modules to do basic things. I can't access file system on device i paid 250$. I have to use adb to change basic things, i rather use symbian.
I am generally in favor of security improvements, but I do not really see much of a benefit here. This attack vector requires both that the user enabled developer settings and that they have remote adb enabled. So, this does not seem to be a realistic attack vector for 99.9% of the users and most of the other 0.1% probably know what they are doing. The other proposed change (to restrict access to certain interfaces o…
Isn't this because of the kimwolf (and now 6+ other botnets) that are taking advantage of people running residential proxyware unknowingly on the device which permits outbound connections to 127.0.0.1 on tcp/5555 to auth in and exec wgets or drops a loader that grabs the ddos malware APKs and install it?
> Spamming the thread will only cause Google developers to lock the issue, ignore valuable community feedback, or stop sharing public updates about this change entirely. So nothing would change (they can also lock away your "valuable community feedback" because what bothers them is the criticism itself), thus feel free to express your approval
I think there's a difference between criticism of a policy and being brigaded by a reddit mob.
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We used to call programs like this, that allow someone to remotely break your system, a Trojan horse...
and now people install Remote Access Trojans just to let GPT and Claude think and work for them, granting them shell and a11y access. really? after seeing that, nothing surprises me