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A theoretical way to circumvent Android developer verification

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194 points sleirsgoevy | 3 comments | 31 Oct 25 20:20 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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asimops ◴[31 Oct 25 21:30 UTC] No.45776925[source]▶
While it is technically feasible, it is not a good idea to try and find a technical solution to a people/organisation problem.

Do not accept the premise of assholes.

I hope we can get the EU to fund a truly open Android Fork. Maybe under some organisation similar to NL Labs.

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Furthermore, the need for a trustworthy binary to be auditable to a certain hash or something would make banning this a simple task if Google would want to go that route.

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closeparen ◴[01 Nov 25 01:28 UTC] No.45778511[source]▶
The same EU that's doing Chat Control?
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exe34 ◴[01 Nov 25 07:16 UTC] No.45779799[source]▶
The EU is a big place, run by a lot of different people, with true separation of powers. They don't have a president-king who can just ignore court decisions.
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jmnicolas ◴[01 Nov 25 09:22 UTC] No.45780320[source]▶
So we're gonna get access to Von Der Layen Pfizer sms right?

Were you offered to vote for Von Der Layen by the way?

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1. StopDisinfo910 ◴[01 Nov 25 09:57 UTC] No.45780465{3}[source]▶
For all the disdain I have for her, Von Der Layen is the candidate put forward by the PPE, the majoritarian party in the EU parliament. So, yes, people were indeed allowed to vote.
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2. wqaatwt ◴[01 Nov 25 12:32 UTC] No.45781152[source]▶
She was primarily nominated by the EU council.

The parliament would have picked Weber, but nobody cared since its just there to rubber stamp predetermined decisions.

He was the leader of the party which won the plurality in the elections and had its support. EU had a real chance to move towards becoming a real parliamentary democracy if it went that way.

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3. StopDisinfo910 ◴[01 Nov 25 16:41 UTC] No.45783099[source]▶
That was the election before the current one. She was the one out forward by the PPE this time and even then she was the second candidate put forward by the PPE after Weber was vetoed by France the previous time.

That’s the new Spitzenkandidate system. The council is supposed to pick the candidate put forward by the main political force in the parliament.

The EU is a real democracy anyway. All the members of the council are themselves democratically elected. It has a weird three parts political system but everyone in it is elected or appointed by people elected.