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Google's play store requires screen grabs of payment screens when submitting. They recommend you photograph the phone with a separate device...
All those highly paid, highly educated people really and truly believe this to be a solution?
If I understand correctly.
It's blocking you from taking screenshots today. It's blocking you from disabling location services tomorrow.
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>make banking apps not work anymore If you live in a country where you have to use your phone for banking and can't use the web then you need to talk to your politicians. That seems like a pretty extreme violation of your freedom. As much as I dislike the US at least we don't have that.
I live in the UK and have used 5 banking apps so far (not all of them at the same time): - Barclays (App won't work with LineageOS, website is horrible). - Monzo (App only, no website, works with LineageOS). - Revolut (App only, no website, works with LineageOS). - TransferWise (Web and App, both work well, but never tried it on LineageOS). - ING Home Bank (App won't work with LineageOS, website is manageable, but st…
Just looked, and apparently Revolut is 1) app only 2) tied to a mobile number. So not only is it annoying to use, but likely also susceptible to sim jacking. Again, why would anyone want to use this; I hate having to deal with wells fargo (they bought a loan I have) but even they seem less crappy. Not trying to hate on OP, I'm just shocked at how crap their service appears to be.
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Google's play store requires screen grabs of payment screens when submitting. They recommend you photograph the phone with a separate device...
All those highly paid, highly educated people really and truly believe this to be a solution?
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>make banking apps not work anymore If you live in a country where you have to use your phone for banking and can't use the web then you need to talk to your politicians. That seems like a pretty extreme violation of your freedom. As much as I dislike the US at least we don't have that.
I live in the UK and have used 5 banking apps so far (not all of them at the same time): - Barclays (App won't work with LineageOS, website is horrible). - Monzo (App only, no website, works with LineageOS). - Revolut (App only, no website, works with LineageOS). - TransferWise (Web and App, both work well, but never tried it on LineageOS). - ING Home Bank (App won't work with LineageOS, website is manageable, but st…
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Sounds like a good backdoor with plausible deniability ("the dev forgot to restore permissions").
I think Hanlon's razor applies. This sort of shoddy work was pretty common in early Android phones, as companies with little software experience adapted to being OS vendors. Here's another similar in concept (though much worse) one from Samsung: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-6422
You can use scrcpy ( https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy ) to bypass the policy if you really need to have a screenshot. All you need is to have a Linux laptop at hand, debug mode enabled, and a USB cable plugged in. Super simple stuff right? (this is satire!) Now, I'm as frustrated as anybody else here that I'm forbidden to use whatever feature I want from MY phone, for which I paid, with MY MOENY (and nobody else'…
Is this satire?
2021 will be the year of Linux on the ... Phone
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Side loading apps is not in the user’s favor though. The iPhone is purchased explicitly to avoid that.
> The iPhone is purchased explicitly to avoid that. This is untrue. Not a single person purchased an iPhone in order to prevent themselves from loading apps.
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Sorry but it is not really your phone if it runs proprietary software. It is like in medieval times, you didn't own the means of production. Welcome your new digital overlords!!
Well, we don't own the means of production today either.