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You are explicitly allowing to install updates in phone's settings. It is made painfully clear. The question here is about what mechanism Google used to instal
by viktorcode 5y ago
You are explicitly allowing to install updates in phone's settings. It is made painfully clear.
The question here is about what mechanism Google used to install an app, can it be disabled, and what other kind of apps Google is capable of installing silently on the devices?
- cblconfederate 5y agoThe mechanism is google's so that point is moot. There should be a physical switch for updates just like some cameras have physical covers
- beprogrammed 5y agoThis is just software updating software, so a switch would just be a token gesture, unless it wasn't, in which case you need to have the software be loaded from some ROM and the ROM only writable when the switch was activated, in which case that would be a fantastic device.
- cblconfederate 5y agoall diskettes used to have read-only locks
- beprogrammed 5y agoThat's a good point. But it also brings up the false sense of security, a floppy drive could just choose to ignore the switch and write anyways, just as the phone could secretly write the firmware.
- account42 5y ago... which does not actually make the medium non-writable but only acts as an indicator to the drive, which with the right firmware could just ignore it.