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Re:Australia Encrypted Messaging Bill to Pass After Labor St... by hvklos on Thursday December 06, 2018 @03:12PM (#18621671)
Compromised version dropped onto phone of a target? Most people are reliant on App Stores for their apps, so that will be a likely vector. We don’t run checksums on desktop software, let alone software from App Stores.
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Re:Australia Encrypted Messaging Bill to Pass After Labor St... by rocqua on Thursday December 06, 2018 @03:19PM (#18621758)
How easy is it to target a play-store update? I doubt google allows binaries to be targeted to individuals, so you'd need to push the update to a rather large set, and have the update only activate for the target.

That isnt very covert.

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Re:Australia Encrypted Messaging Bill to Pass After Labor St... by hvklos on Thursday December 06, 2018 @03:36PM (#18621939)
They’d probably try to compel app stores to support individual targeting as a first step. If the Australian versions haven’t shut down in the next few weeks, it’s a pretty sure bet that they’ll have been compromised.
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