Comment by m132
12 hours ago
> This attack vector requires both that the user enabled developer settings and that they have remote adb enabled.
Not just that. A non-development Android build will also prompt the user when a connection is made to authorize the client's key.
This once again isn't about security of users, this is about security of the company's interests.
Google just got hit by yet another record antitrust fine by the EU [1]. But as long as they see these fines as cost of doing business, nothing will change. Especially if it always takes almost a decade to push this through the judicial system. Their net income last year alone was $130 Billion.
[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/eu-top-court-dismisses-google-...
Eh, that is if they pay. Trump already made threats for tariffs in regards to those fines.
Which is a federal sales tax against the citizens of the United States countries abroad do not pay no matter how many times taco lies.
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The EU shouldn't be regulating Google like this.
The US should.
The DOJ brought an antitrust case against Google… and won.
Then the judge pretty much decided “no consequences”.
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Why not both? Countries should be able to signal which business practices are undesirable.
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Hopeless. US already lost against corps. And that will be their downfall.