VibeSurgeon

Are there even any stats on phone scammers doing this?

I don’t necessarily know about stats. As I understand it, there is some governmental pressure to address the situation, hence why the program is being rolled out in specific markets before the global rollout.

I wouldn’t be surprised if there were more malicious google play store apps than apps from 3rd party places trying to do this sort of attack.

Probably, given that the overwhelming majority of installs happening through the Play Store. Google have some control in this surface though - they can unlist malicious apps and close down their developer accounts. Potentially even take legal action, given that developer accounts require ID these days.

If anything scammers would just get people to plug their phone into their computers.

If a scammer manages to coach someone to install adb, then I’m impressed.

adb-installs are explicitly allowed to skip the 24 hour wait limit.

This thing is nominally there to shut down phone scammers - people who are technically fluent enough to install adb are very unlikely to be susceptible to them.

While this is bad, I’m using the Pixel Weather app, which doesn’t seem to be affected by this change?

Be that as it may, businesses will generally move towards things that cost less dollars on balance

There’s likely a maintenance cost continuously being paid that Apple wants to get away from.

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