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Android's new real-time app scanning aims to combat malicious sideloaded apps | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
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[โ€“] madis@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But... they could've already done that with current tools? Not like these change the package ID often.

[โ€“] tigerjerusalem@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

They could, but I think that would be too obvious. Why such system they could flag it at OS level with a big, scary warning and claim it was for security sake.