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Re:Google terminated our business via our Google Play Develo... by grawprog on Saturday February 09, 2019 @03:48PM (#19124513)
>App stores are the least-unreliable mechanism I have to trust executable code.

And yet almost weekly I read a new story about malicious apps being found in app stores. Like this one posted today:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/02/googl...

Personally I trust things from app stores about as much as I trust random things from the web.

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Re:Google terminated our business via our Google Play Develo... by ben_w on Saturday February 09, 2019 @03:50PM (#19124533)
Which is why I phrased it “least unreliable” rather than “best”.
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Re:Google terminated our business via our Google Play Develo... by grawprog on Saturday February 09, 2019 @05:44PM (#19125164)
Considering there aren't many totally reliable ways to avoid shady software save going through the source of a program line by line and verifying it yourself, least-unrealiable sort of comes across as best.
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