Source: The Verge
Summary
Google is introducing a new advanced setting in Android that allows users to disable app verification after completing a multistep security process. This change is intended to make sideloading easier. According to Google, the new setting will be available in a future Android update.
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The launch follows a familiar script.
Google is making sideloading easier with a new advanced setting that lets users disable app verification. Because what could possibly go wrong with that? The multistep security process is supposed to reassure users, but we’ve seen this movie before. Sideloading just got a whole lot more interesting. And by interesting, we mean potentially disastrous.
Author: Evan Null
