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Google Restricts Android Sideloading—What It Means for User Autonomy and the Future of Mobile Freedom – Purism (puri.sm)
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[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 hours ago

Lol. So this API for 'security' and 'integrity' basically has a built in malware trojan:

Avoid caching integrity verdicts Caching integrity verdicts increases the risk of proxying, which is an attack where a bad actor reuses a verdict from a good device for abusive purposes in another environment. Instead of caching responses, you can make a standard API request to get a verdict on demand.