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

Premadekrill(She/Her)@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 17 days ago

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

brillotti@lemmy.world · 17 days ago

They’re not wrong

ozymandias@sh.itjust.works · 17 days ago

This is a good time to remind people that if you install a custom ROM from https://xdaforums.com/ (that’s where most instructions are at any rate), you can install a version of Android with no google services whatsoever, including no play store

vatlark@lemmy.world · 16 days ago

Where is the motorola graphene OS phone? This would be a great day to launch.

bad1080@piefed.social · 15 days ago

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

vatlark@lemmy.world · 15 days ago

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

bad1080@piefed.social · 15 days 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”.

Mugita Sokio@lemmy.today · 17 days ago

GrapheneOS users, I don’t think, will have this virus. I could be wrong, though.

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 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

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