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Stewart Sims

What are people using for 'real device' mobile app testing these days?

I've only ever used Browser Stack plus a handful of actual physical devices.

Really looking for the lowest cost viable solution. Something that scales with usage might be more cost effective in my case or offers subscription that is easy to let lapse when not being used.

#appdevelopment#mobileapps
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gillo

Some of the world’s most popular apps are likely being co-opted by rogue members of the advertising industry to harvest sensitive location data on a massive scale. The thousands of apps include everything from games like Candy Crush and dating apps like Tinder to pregnancy tracking and religious prayer apps across both Android and iOS. wired.com/story/gravy-location #MobileApps #Privacy #databrokers #infosec

WIRED · Candy Crush, Tinder, MyFitnessPal: See the Thousands of Apps Hijacked to Spy on Your LocationBy Joseph Cox
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Miguel Afonso Caetano

#EU #DMA #Interoperability #Competition #Oligopolies #Antitrust #Mobile #MobileApps: "Today, together with many others, we have co-signed this important letter addressing the urgent need for DMA enforcement.
(...)
The Digital Markets Act (DMA) aims to restore contestability, interoperability, choice, and fairness to digital markets within the EU. These fundamental principles of a well-functioning digital market have been compromised by the excessive power gatekeepers exert through their control of "core platform services."

The lack of competition in mobile ecosystems is fundamentally structural. Gatekeepers wield immense power due to the security model upon which these devices are built. Traditionally, on operating systems like Windows, macOS, and Linux, users can install any application they choose without interaction from the operating system gatekeeper, either by the business or the end user. Users can then grant these programs the necessary permissions to perform their desired functions."

open-web-advocacy.org/blog/its

Open Web AdvocacyIt's time for a fairer, more competitive app ecosystem - Open Web Advocacy
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Daniele Verducci 🧉
I mantain a couple of #Android applications both on @fdroidorg and #google #playstore . Now Play Store asks me a document (personal ID card) to verify my account, otherwise it will be closed in October.
I don’t feel I should disclose #personaldata to a giant like Google, so I’m considering migrating my users to #F-Droid. How should I do it? There's already other people doing this? There's any material (e.g. a webpage) to point my users at that explains why and how they should install #fdroid and reinstall my apps from there?

#gafam #opensource #mobile #mobileapps
#mobileapps
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Bob Young

You’ll occasionally run across an opinion by some cybersecurity commentator saying that the Google App Store (Google Play) is full of malicious apps. This is false. It’s impossible for any software repository to guarantee it’s 100 percent free of malware (here’s looking at you, GitHub), but there’s a reason why cybercriminals love to bypass the app store entirely. They know it’s easier to convince you to disable app store security and download directly from their malicious website.

Sideloading apps is a really bad idea. Use the official app store.

[Special note to the small but vocal F-Droid community: no, F-Droid is NOT a good idea for the average, non-technical user. Once the non-technical user enables the Android feature, “allow installation from Unknown Sources,” they’ve made their device vulnerable to problems they don’t even know how to identify.]

Here are some quotes from a recent article in Ars Technica about a class of sideloaded apps that target people with cryptocurrency accounts.

"Researchers have discovered more than 280 malicious apps for Android that use optical character recognition to steal cryptocurrency wallet credentials from infected devices . . . “

"The apps are available from malicious sites and are distributed in phishing messages sent to targets . . .”

"There’s no indication that any of the apps were available through Google Play."

THE LESSON
Stick to Google Play.
If you're an average user, do not enable the Android feature, “allow installation from Unknown Sources.”

Source:
htt ps: // arstechnica.com/ security/ 2024/ 09/ found-280-android-apps-that-use-ocr-to-steal-cryptocurrency-credentials/
(spaces added to make the link non-functional)

#callmeifyouneedme #fifonetworks

#cybersecurity#android#mobileapps
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Alan Lewis

JEFFREY FOUCAULT
"NIGHTSHIFT"

Local/nearby (Shelburne Falls MA) folk rock singer-songwriter Jeffrey Foucault has a new album, "The Universal Fire." The title track is the song being featured but this is the cut being played on our local radio superstation, WRSI.

Nightshift
from The Universal Fire by Jeffrey Foucault
jeffreyfoucault.bandcamp.com/t

I'm surprised this cut is 3:13 in length. It goes by quickly.

If Foucault ever pulls together a career retrospective (so far), it is going to be a corker.

WRSI has an excellent mobile app which is well worth downloading. It is one of the two music radio stations I listen to, the other being NYC's WFUV.

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#bandcamp #folkmusic #folkrock #jeffreyfoucault #mobileapp #mobileapps #musicnews #nightshift #radio #radioapp #radioapps #shelburnefalls #shelburnefallsmassachusetts #singersongwriter #theuniversalfire #universalfire #wfuv #wfuvradio #wrsi #wrsiradio #wrsitheriver

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Jeffrey FoucaultNightshift, by Jeffrey Foucault from the album The Universal Fire
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