<story><title>Google Play has been spreading advanced Android malware for years</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/04/sophisticated-android-backdoors-have-been-populating-google-play-for-years/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>AnthonyMouse</author><text>Let this be another nail in the coffin of the &amp;quot;walled garden&amp;quot; farce.&lt;p&gt;We learn this lesson again and again. People want someone to trust, but a bureaucracy isn&amp;#x27;t trustworthy. It has its own agenda and values inconsistent with yours. They take 30% from everybody whether they approve malware or not, and whether they reject legitimate apps or not.&lt;p&gt;Trust doesn&amp;#x27;t come from size. If you want someone to vet your apps, it has to be someone whose interests are actually aligned with yours, not just whoever is big enough to force everybody through the tollgate into their store.</text></comment>
<story><title>Google Play has been spreading advanced Android malware for years</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/04/sophisticated-android-backdoors-have-been-populating-google-play-for-years/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>WrtCdEvrydy</author><text>Oh yeah, they can spread malware for months, but I submit one fucking app that allows you create signs for your business for COVID-19 and all of a sudden I get a &amp;#x27;Sensitive Events Violation Suspension&amp;#x27; and get a ding on my Google Play account.&lt;p&gt;Google has become Apple except worse because at least Apple is reachable.</text></comment>