It would be really funny to hack that system and force on everyone’s flashlights and vibration
And downright hilarious to compromise financials and MFA.
It’s be a real riot to make a botnet
Soon available in every country, no doubt, as obviously we all deserve to be… protected from our-naughty-selves.
Credit where due: Apple saying ‘fuck you, make us.’
You only hear about the “fuck you, make us” part and not the compromises they make afterwards. But how can you even tell?
Or the usual, “we had no other options” after the fact they’re revealed to be compromised. And the cult swiftly tries to ignore this.
Apple fanboys really love defending a company that doesn’t even open source it’s code. It’s like being sold asbestos in the 1900s just because it was marketed aggressively.
“Yep thats the shit”
Apple haters are just as predictable, their arguments just as tired.
But is it illegal to remove it ?
Well then use ADB
What does the app actually do? They call it an anti-fraud app, but I don’t understand what fraud it’s supposed to fight?
It probably scans installed apps, settings that could compromise access (for eg USB debugging, bootloader unlocking), apk files in storage, etc all while sending juicy infometrics to an unsecured database
Next in news: a govt database was leaked…
Can someone summerize the article, for some reason it thinks I’m using AdBlock despite not and won’t let me actually read it
ahh the good old “it is for your own good”
Thanks, that is indeed dystopian
If only there were a simple easy to flash ROMs onto phones that normies could do. Just plug it into a computer, run a program, follow instructions and have lineage is or so on it.
Bro I got news for you
Can lineage do that now? 😮 That would be great! There are so many cheap phones that lineage supports, it would make it very affordable for people in India to make a large step towards degoogling!
Graphene can also do that.
Could be cool to support it for lineageos. GrapheneOS is limited to a single brand and there are many brands in India and around the world which will be forced by the Indian government to install that spyware.
Well, there’s a web installer (Chromium only because it’s using very unsafe features of course) that is used by ProtonAOSP and GrapheneOS currently. LineageOS people don’t want to add that because it’s impossible to troubleshoot if it doesn’t work, would make Firefox users feel left out, and because the normal installation procedure is a matter of some tech literacy.
And there are hundreds of native wrappers around fastboot (look up “fastboot GUI”) and ones specifically for installing ROMs (look up “LineageOS installer”. All of which break in all sorts of ways. The only example I can think of for a somewhat good one is the embedded for MiTool, the tool specifically for officially unlocked Xiaomi devices. Well, good luck getting a Xiaomi phone officially unlocked, however.
Almost forgot the thing I said “I have news for you” for. The closest thing to what you described (that is guaranteed to work) is opening the LineageOS website and blindly following instructions there. They are really specific and it would be really difficult to misunderstand.
Just uninstall it by using Canta, no? Note: I’m not from India
