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A theoretical way to circumvent Android developer verification

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194 points sleirsgoevy | 1 comments | 31 Oct 25 20:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | 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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rf15 ◴[01 Nov 25 02:03 UTC] No.45778682[source]▶
The same EU of which parts are trying to make chat control work and are once again abandoning it. Politician get this particular fancy idea every other year in all kinds of countries, not just EU. Overreach out of desperation for a problem that cannot simply be solved is wrong but understandable.
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igor_akhmetov ◴[01 Nov 25 10:17 UTC] No.45780562[source]▶
Desperation for what exactly? More control?
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ForHackernews ◴[01 Nov 25 12:45 UTC] No.45781215{3}[source]▶
They are trying to stop crime, including sex/drug trafficking and child exploitation. If you want to have an intellectually honest debate, you need to be clear that private communication apps do make it more difficult for police to conduct legitimate investigations. You do yourself no favours painting all politicians as power-hungry caricatures.
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1. ipaddr ◴[01 Nov 25 13:30 UTC] No.45781496{4}[source]▶
So do private in person conversations. Going the route of North Korea putting two way speakers in each house would help make those conversations available to the government. Think of all of the child exploitation you could stop by removing any sense of privacy. Of course they would figure a way around this and everyday citizens would have to deal with the lack of privacy but at least they thought of the children so we should keep voting them in.