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Is it possible to allow sideloading and keep users safe?

(shkspr.mobi)
205 points ColinWright | 4 comments | 30 Aug 25 12:03 UTC | HN request time: 0.62s | source
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nazgu1 ◴[30 Aug 25 13:04 UTC] No.45074290[source]▶
For me it’s a matter of settings. As a user I would have option to choose “secure” mode that disallow installing apps from unofficial sources, but if I want to I should have option to allow side loading. Everything else is just corporations need to have to much control.
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1. cwillu ◴[30 Aug 25 13:14 UTC] No.45074369[source]▶
The problem is that important services will then be (and already are!) only permitted to run in “secure” mode.

I literally have a banking app that will refuse to run on an “unsecure” phone. Today I can still install unsigned apps, but removing that ability is explicitly the goal of this policy change.

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2. boredatoms ◴[31 Aug 25 04:44 UTC] No.45080440[source]▶
Im worried about big apps like instagram deciding that side loading is better for whatever permissions hacks that alllows
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3. Larrikin ◴[31 Aug 25 05:26 UTC] No.45080592[source]▶
They would have already done it
4. IshKebab ◴[31 Aug 25 08:36 UTC] No.45081519[source]▶
Apparently DJI's app is only available directly from them.