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Re:Ask HN: How do you trust that your personal machine is no... by Grim-444 on Sunday January 15, 2023 @11:23AM (#34390544)
Well both of your complaints were already addressed. Android introduced the scoped storage system to remove and fix abuse of "full" disk access, and they also added the foreground notification system which forces a system notification to be displayed if any app is doing work in the background, so that you know about.
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Re:Ask HN: How do you trust that your personal machine is no... by drozycki on Sunday January 15, 2023 @03:02PM (#34392732)
Right, but if the average real-world Android experience lags behind say iOS in terms of security, then the point, even if outdated, still serves to disprove the parent’s premise that AOSP is the most secure.
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