alt Hacker News> ADB installs are not impacted by the waiting period, so that is an option if you need to install certain unregistered applications immediately.
Someone is just going to make a nice GUI application for sideloading apks with a single drag-and-drop, so if your idea is that ADB is a way to ensure only "users who know what they're doing" are gonna sideload, you've done nothing. This is all security theatre.
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Retr0id • last Thursday at 8:34 PM
The scammers don't even need to make a GUI, they just need to get you to enable adb-over-tcp and bridge that to their network somehow - an ssh client app would do the trick.
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Gander5739 • last Thursday at 8:56 PM
scrcpy can already do that.
> “For a lot of people in the world, their phone is their only computer, and it stores some of their most private information,” Samat said.
Not applying the policy to adb installs makes a lot more sense if the people this is trying to protect don't have a computer