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  1. 'They bombarded Android devices w/requests to connect to ad servers. There is no functionality to display ads' gizmodo.com/symantec-concludes-just-eight-google-play-minecraft-app-1819667763
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    1. …in reply to @Chronotope
      Google Play is “chronically unable to detect untrustworthy apps before allowing them into its official app bazaar.”
      1. …in reply to @Chronotope
        The problem with trying to create a closed garden is that you are then responsible for security in that garden...
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          ...w/o security from the community oversight of the wider web, companies running closed gardens will be unable to secure the environment.
          1. …in reply to @Chronotope
            This isn't a maybe or a might. Google is an enormous company that devotes significant resources to their closed garden and they can't do it.
            1. …in reply to @Chronotope
              This is what happens when you no longer have community governance and open source as the basis of your technical platform.
              1. …in reply to @Chronotope
                Or your ecosystem *looks at general ad tech*
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                  And Apple has the exact same issue. Closed Garden technical systems intended for the general public are inherently and irreparably insecure.


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