Comment by cobbal
4 days ago
Can you set your clock forward or does this also require phoning home to a central server to install an app on your computer?
4 days ago
Can you set your clock forward or does this also require phoning home to a central server to install an app on your computer?
It'll be interesting to see how the timing is enforced. Can you just set up your own NTP server to fool your phone into thinking it's really the future (and not just you adjusting your phone's clock manually). Will Google run a clock that you have to get a timestamp from (would it be easy to setup your own MITM proxy to get around this?). If the time somehow jumped backwards, would you lose the ability to install apps? Can google remotely disable this after it's already enabled (I think yes)?
It requires an internet connection to adjust the toggle.
I think it would be a bad idea to require an internet connection (for one thing, you might want to write your own app that does not require a internet connection); but, even if it doesn't, would not mean you can set the clock to avoid the delay, because it could be made to reset the delay if the clock is set.