F-Droid has warned that over the past few months, Google has pushed a malicious programme known as the Android Developer Verifier to as many as 4 billion Android devices

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afaik this will be for corporations only and not sold to consumers directly

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Oh, I hadn’t heard that. Is that a common business model for phones?

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i mean it has been a thing for sure, motorola builds the radio and wifi systems in cop cars for example. the phone part may be new but it seems to be of the idea “corporations may need privacy but consumers don’t deserve it”.

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