Comment by throwaway290
3 months ago
Yes, and 99% of it gets caught by walled gardens. That's why granny is fine on ios. She will get her data siphoned by shady apps but she will not install a backdoor from the app store. After google locks it down then maybe on android too.
Granny can absolutely install a backdoor from the appstore, there's lots of backdoors on the app store. You can even install a backdoor just from the web browser, feel free to do some research into Pegasus.
But it doesn't even matter, because ultimately Granny can download the Apple Approved (tm) anydesk app and the hacker can remote control her phone. So.
The appstore is not secure, I don't know who lied to you and told you it is. You think Apple reads the code? Fuck no. They just ask the dev "is this secure?". The dev answers "yes", obviously, and that's the entire review process.
Meta was exfiltrating cookies from your browser to their app using an exploit in Safari. They could've taken your bank session and drained your accounts, if they wanted. Luckily they were very kind and only used their malware to sell you shit.
Facebook is a big app with lots of visibility. Now do the other 100,000 apps on the app store.