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What harm is there to you if sideloading is enabled?

• martimarkov 3y ago
  Literally the new attack vector I described above. It’s one more thing to worry about.
  • ixwt 3y ago
    I think your proposed attack vector would look more like this: Scammer: Madam, go into your settings and enable side loading. It will then connect to your bank account and I will… Madam: Okay uuuuh... A big popup came up... It says... That I should not enable this setting unless I really know what I'm doing... And if someone is telling me to enable it then I should hang up the phone!!
    • bloody-crow 3y ago
      This is a totally unrealistic scenario. Victims of scam trust the person on the phone much more than their own ability to figure out what's going on. Scammers successfully convince people to manually disable every protection and dismiss every warning the computer throws at them regularly. No amount of software red tape is going to prevent scammers from sideloading malware on a device of a victim who trusts them. The only realistic way to actually prevent it is to not have sideloading as an option in the first place.