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Re: Tutorial: Build your first Android APK on Windows from Github WhisperIME source code

From	Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de>
Newsgroups	alt.comp.os.windows-10, comp.mobile.android, alt.comp.os.windows-11
Subject	Re: Tutorial: Build your first Android APK on Windows from Github WhisperIME source code
Date	2025-08-29 18:55 +0200
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R.Wieser, 2025-08-26 14:35:

> Arno,
> 
>> At the moment attackers can you just build their own malware APKs for
>> Android free and and lure people into downloading them. That's one of
>> the reasons why Android is often considered very insecure.
> 
> Bullshit.  You can download anything you want on Windows as well as Linux, 
> and neither has been called insecure for it.

It is. Windows is considered less secure - because of that!

And even you *can* download any kind of software for Linux, most Linux
newbies only use the repositories provided by the distributor. And the
more experienced Linux users won't just download software from some
unknown source and run it.

> The reason Android is quite insecure is that you have no methods to check 
> what a certain app is doing,  meaning that if an app misbehaves you have no 
> way to detect it.   Also, the current permissions are crude, only giving 
> all-or-nothing choices. :-(

Every single API call which reads user data or sends data of the network
*must* be authorized. Also many API calls which interact with other
applications. However many users just allow everything when asked, not
thinking one second if the requested permission is OK for the specific
use case or not.



-- 
Arno Welzel
https://arnowelzel.de

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Tutorial: Build your first Android APK on Windows from Github WhisperIME source code Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-08-23 09:23 +0000
  Re: Tutorial: Build your first Android APK on Windows from Github WhisperIME source code Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-08-23 17:56 +0000
  Re: Tutorial: Build your first Android APK on Windows from Github WhisperIME source code Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-08-26 03:54 +0000
    Re: Tutorial: Build your first Android APK on Windows from Github WhisperIME source code Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-08-26 07:12 +0000
    Re: Tutorial: Build your first Android APK on Windows from Github WhisperIME source code "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2025-08-26 09:22 +0200
    Re: Tutorial: Build your first Android APK on Windows from Github WhisperIME source code Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2025-08-26 13:18 +0200
      Re: Tutorial: Build your first Android APK on Windows from Github WhisperIME source code "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2025-08-26 14:35 +0200
        Re: Tutorial: Build your first Android APK on Windows from Github WhisperIME source code Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-08-27 00:31 +0000
        Re: Tutorial: Build your first Android APK on Windows from Github WhisperIME source code Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-08-27 00:33 +0000
        Re: Tutorial: Build your first Android APK on Windows from Github WhisperIME source code Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2025-08-29 18:55 +0200

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