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hedora 44 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Google restricts Android sideloading

Facebook was just caught using loopback networking to completely bypass app sandboxes. If anything, I’d want to block any app that contains a dependency they signed.

charcircuit 44 days ago [–]

>bypass app sandboxes

Apps on android are freely able to talk to each other. It is not a bypass to be able to do so.

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