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Because you are unable to verify what the google play service binary is doing. It could potentially bypass any security built in to the app and allow google to
by thereddaikon 4y ago
Because you are unable to verify what the google play service binary is doing. It could potentially bypass any security built in to the app and allow google to read your messages.
And the answer to their question is that it depends on your threat model and the amount of risk you are willing to accept. There is no such thing as perfect security or a perfectly validated platform. At some point you have to accept good enough and get on with your life.
- tppol 4y agoHow would it do that? While the Play Services app has more privileges than many other apps on a device, it's still running in an application sandbox, and shouldn't have permission to read the Signal app's data or attach to its process or anything like that.