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> Your increased trust in these stores is motivated by .... what governance and audit structure? One gains knowledge, not trust, from studying governance and a
by jancsika 9y ago
> Your increased trust in these stores is motivated by .... what governance and audit structure?
One gains knowledge, not trust, from studying governance and audit structures.
> From here, this looks no better than "trust google" and in some dimensions looks significantly worse.
In what concrete way(s)?
- ggm 9y agoDo they do the same kind(s) of scans the google store does on apps? Sure, reproducible builds, but reproducible with holes isn't an upside. How does a bad app get removed? Who decides? When?
- ethelward 9y agoGivent the recent track records of many fishy apps on the PlayStore, I'll take my risk with the OSS of FDroid. https://www.zdnet.com/article/phony-android-security-apps-in-google-play-store-found-distributing-malware-and-tracking-users/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/phony-android-security-apps-in... https://blog.malwarebytes.com/cybercrime/2017/11/new-trojan-malware-discovered-google-play/ https://blog.malwarebytes.com/cybercrime/2017/11/new-trojan-... https://thehackernews.com/2017/12/google-playstore-malware.html https://thehackernews.com/2017/12/google-playstore-malware.h... https://thenextweb.com/hardfork/2018/04/20/google-play-cryptocurrency-apps-malware/ https://thenextweb.com/hardfork/2018/04/20/google-play-crypt...
- UncleMeat 9y agoWhen you've got millions of apps, this tends to happen on occasion.