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  • Lol, Play is an exploit.

    After 30 years in IT, I’ve seen 100x more systems taken down by updates than by exploits.

    Actually, I’ve never had a system taken down by an exploit, 100% of outages have been caused by borked updates or changes.

    I’ve had friends who’s clients have been taken hostage by exploits, and 100% of those have been because of poor security practices and phishing - neither of which is preventable by updates.

    Here’s a question, if almost no-one sideloads or uses FDroid, where do people get the millions of malicious apps from? Play Store.

    So where’s the problem again? Oh, yea, Play Store.

    Why does Play need Play Protect if practically all apps come from Play Store?







  • Android isn’t Linux, Android is a Java implementation using a Linux kernel (IIRC) - the Linux part isn’t even “complete” - when you root you find there are tools you need to add to get typical Linux capability (busybox, init-d, etc). .

    So you’re not going to install an Android APK on Linux or anything else, unless it emulates Android.

    The language used doesn’t mean much - lots of stuff for Windows was written using C languages, and those would never run on Linux or Unix.







  • It’s impossible because the EU is only slightly more cohesive than Europe was before WWI…

    EU only exists because member countries saw the need for an economic power to contend with the US post-WWII. It’s not like States in the US - each country is there only so long as they feel their interests are being met.

    The mere thought of Brexit occuring should’ve been a warning shot - everyone took to castigating Britain instead of examining why it could even be an idea, let alone actually happening.