Scammers make old people install malicious app designed to steal user data and obviously much more. It’s a trick as old as the Internet itself but it’s much more devastating when literally almost every aspect of your life is at stake.
“I want to say, in all seriousness, that a great deal of harm is being done in the modern world by belief in the virtuousness of work, and that the road to happiness and prosperity lies in an organised diminution of work.” - Bertrand Russell, In Praise of Idleness
Scammers make old people install malicious app designed to steal user data and obviously much more. It’s a trick as old as the Internet itself but it’s much more devastating when literally almost every aspect of your life is at stake.
They’re not making it impossible to install. Trust me if that was the case I’d just use iphone. But few warnings definitely don’t hurt imo.
Good chance if you have Fdroid you know what you’re doing
How do people come up with these genious ideas?
Thank you, kind sir o7
Because sideloading is definitely a major security issue if you don’t know what you’re doing?
edit: obviously I am very much against banning side loading. Sideloading is close to being the only reason I use Android. But I can’t understand how few warnings really make people angry.
It’s definitely not a great idea to let general public just willy nilly install minecraft_cracked.apk
without at least few warnings. I love Fdroid/Obtanium and I’m not going to deny it’s rather inconvenient to update apps with them but cmon…
I did this once. The community stays without any moderator. Instance admin can assign moderators if needed.
Which is still very much dumb thing to do.
I am not willing to sell my imaginary kids for Kagi but I sure as hell love them. People can have good experiences and people also like to share them. Evangelicals are always going to be for anything or for anyone. What you should be asking is why are people willing to sell their kids to defend what they have strong feelings/beliefs about?
Terrorist shoots at someone’s bulletproof vest:
“Derp, they didn’t shoot the man just the vest! Clickbait!”
just gonna put this right here…
Authy had a data leak that resulted in partial leak of phone numbers. God an email with this weak ass opener “I could’ve called 123xxxxx567 but I didn’t”
bitch barely tried 🤣
Which is just Arch with GUI setup and DE pre-shipped
I wonder if they would kill someone just to get attention at some point.
Tankies satisfied
He’s really just throwing hissy fits at literally anywhere now, isn’t he?
Second track from the famous Love Supreme, aka Resolution, has a version sang by Kurt Elling. Its lyrics is very much interesting.
Please don’t be a dick.
Genuine question: what is the real alternative to WP? Ghost sucks, Hugo, Jekyll has 0 client approval factor without some shitty third party thing. Wix, Squarespace is not open.
Modern Windows gives you warning when you try to execute unsigned executables.
Android is not outright banning sideloading. It’s just showing you some annoying warnings, which, for me personally, is not enough deterrant to stop people from installing bad shit on their machine that has close to everything about that person.