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Re:Developer account removed by Apple – $108,878 frozen by waihtis on Thursday November 23, 2023 @01:37PM (#38395948)
It's not in the interest of the DOJ to do so - 95% of people are technologically completely inept and it would expose them to fraud, malware and such at unprecedented scale
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Re:Developer account removed by Apple – $108,878 frozen by paranoidrobot on Thursday November 23, 2023 @01:53PM (#38396126)
I don't see how this follows.

Android phones can have alternate appstores, and yet we don't see widespread malware, fraud etc from that.

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Re:Developer account removed by Apple – $108,878 frozen by scarface_74 on Thursday November 23, 2023 @02:12PM (#38396316)
Have you heard of a little company called Epic?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanwhitwam/2018/08/25/epic-gam...

And then

https://www.komando.com/security-privacy/ratmilad-android-ma...

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Re:Developer account removed by Apple – $108,878 frozen by d0gsg0w00f on Thursday November 23, 2023 @02:13PM (#38396325)
Technically illiterate people don't use open OS's so there's no reason for attackers to target those platforms. Also, the number of users is so small that it's not worth an attacker's time.
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Re:Developer account removed by Apple – $108,878 frozen by sidlls on Thursday November 23, 2023 @02:58PM (#38396841)
We don't?
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