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I think it's far more interesting to think about what went wrong so that the MassNotify app actually displays as installed on these devices. All of the Android
by dstaley 5y ago
I think it's far more interesting to think about what went wrong so that the MassNotify app actually displays as installed on these devices. All of the Android COVID exposure apps for US states are simply the Google Play Services COVID Exposure Notifications code with an icon, splash screen, and possibly some text. The idea is that you enable the setting by installing the app, but in this case it seems that rolling out the setting itself has caused the app to appear as installed. I wonder if there was a misconfiguration on the part of the MassNotify developer, which caused this. The push to devices enabling the setting is likely automatic on Google's end, so I doubt a human did a check to ensure the MassNotify app behaved as expected.
At the end of the day, there likely wasn't actually anything more than a package ID installed on user devices. It didn't opt anyone into exposure notifications, and it most likely didn't include any executable code.
- optymizer 5y agoThis is not true. An app _was_ actually installed on my device. The device isn't rooted, but I have Developer Options enabled and I can see that the folder /data/data/gov.ma.covid19.exposurenotifications.v3 exists. Logcat also shows that this isn't a Google Play misconfiguration where it would show details about an application as if it were installed. Executable code was installed and run on my phone. 06-19 10:55:21.977 1192 1609 I ActivityManager: Start proc 10474:gov.ma.covid19.exposurenotifications.v3/u0a418 for service {gov.ma.covid19.exposurenotifications.v3/androidx.work.impl.background.systemjob.SystemJobService} 06-19 10:55:22.032 10474 10474 D LoadedApk: LoadedApk::makeApplication() appContext=android.app.ContextImpl@bfaf057 appContext.mOpPackageName=gov.ma.covid19.exposurenotifications.v3 appContext.mBasePackageName=gov.ma.covid19.exposurenotifications.v3 appContext.mPackageInfo=android.app.LoadedApk@1f755d6