• FiveMacs
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    3611 months ago

    Lol. Have fun with that. I bet you anything it won’t work because the failure point is still humans themselves. The amount of information people give out is astonishing

    • 🐑🇸 🇭 🇪 🇪 🇵 🇱 🇪🐑
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      11 months ago

      This so much this. Windows and most modern devices already WILL warn you when something is not safe and clearly that isn’t making it stop. It’s the human stubbornly signing up to obvious phishing and disregarding these warnings

    • @AdamEatsAss
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      411 months ago

      It’s still better than nothing. Even if it just warns users to be careful I’m sure it would stop some people from sharing to a bad actor.

  • Otter
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    711 months ago

    While digging through the new Android 14 QPR2 Beta 2 release, I managed to surface a hidden “scanning for deceptive apps” page under Settings → Security & privacy → More security & privacy. Once enabled, this feature will apparently check “app activity for phishing or other deceptive behavior.” This will apparently be done by scanning the app for certain signs of deceptive behavior. Google says that “scanning runs privately right on your device” and that if phishing or other deceptive behavior is found, “some app info is sent to Google Play Protect to confirm the threat and warn app users.”

    Is that phishing? Sounds like a lot of work to make an entire phishing app when you could use a webpage

    I haven’t ever found Play Protect to be useful, but I’m fairly careful with what I download. Maybe others aren’t that lucky

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      711 months ago

      Play protect mostly targets apps that harm Google’s interests. Think Lucky Patcher.

    • @brygphilomena
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      111 months ago

      You know, just every app that isn’t installed via play store. It’s “deceptive” because Google isn’t making a buck off it.

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    411 months ago

    But don’t most phishing schemes redirect you to a webpage what would scanning “apps” do? Guess it means your email client and SMS messenger