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by jonathanyc 627 days ago
Weird, this whole time I had the impression that the Apple App Store was more strongly reviewed than the Google Play Store. I remember searching on the Play Store and getting e.g. lookalike/phishing apps pretending to be Firefox, but which I’m sure actually did cryptocurrency mining.
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Manual review is just fallible, period. The App Store has dealt with extremely high-profile phishing apps as well, even imitating Lastpass and the like: https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/02/a-password-manager-...