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[–] [email protected] 37 points 11 months ago (2 children)

with reasonable vetting like Google Play Store

Seemingly innocuous Play store apps get found to be viruses all the time, most recent in my memory being a few barcode scanner apps, farthest back in my memory being flashlight apps back before android did it natively, but there's been more over the years. Trusting apps "because play store" is horrible practice.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago

It's reasonably safe. That's not the same as "harmless."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Because play store and OS permissions. Nothing is 100% safe but that's two layers of defense these apps have that a random exe designed for an OS that gives root perms to every process does not have