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Not really. You need to be root to have the same experience as playstore - namely auto updates.
by searchableguy 6y ago
Not really. You need to be root to have the same experience as playstore - namely auto updates.
- scarface74 6y agoSo I’m going to both trust an app that is not sandboxed on my phone and trust it to update itself without my consent?
- WrtCdEvrydy 6y agoAll apps are sandboxed in Android... even the ones installed externally.
- scarface74 6y agoObviously not well enough considering what happened with Fortnite....
- WrtCdEvrydy 6y agoWhat happened to Fortnite?
- scarface74 6y agohttps://www.cnet.com/news/just-as-critics-feared-fortnite-for-android-came-with-an-epic-security-risk/ https://www.cnet.com/news/just-as-critics-feared-fortnite-fo...
- searchableguy 6y ago> For the attack to work, it sounds like you would have already needed to have a piece of malware on your phone, ready and waiting to strike. But not a particularly sophisticated one. After you ask the Fortnite Launcher to download Fortnite, Google claims that any app with the WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission would have been able to sneakily replace the real Fortnite app with a fake one after security checks were already complete. It's known as a "man-in-the-disk" attack.