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Mon 05 July 2021

Microtargetting Through App Stores

Posted by fedops in Phone   

Google Changes the Rules, and that brings with it the end of the walled gardens.

A short news item on Late Night Linux episode 126 referencing this Public Security Announcement in r/privacytoolsIO on Reddit gave me a very rude awakening. It describes Google forcing application developers to hand over their package signing keys to Google so they can sign the packages on their behalf. This change was introduced along with the change from APK …

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