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Comment by Taterr

8 hours ago

So we should just accept that all apps must treat android notifications as a compromised communication channel?

The scammers will find some other way to abuse the very generous permissions allowed by an android app if you prevent the notification attack.

> So we should just accept that all apps must treat android notifications as a compromised communication channel?

Look, that's an OS issue, not an app distribution issue. If I could use the trusted, vetted software from F-Droid I wouldn't need to worry about this sort of attack.