alt Hacker NewsYou can add 5 layers of "are you sure you want to do this unsafe thing" and it just adds 5 easy steps to the scam where they say "agree to the annoying popup"
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mormegil • yesterday at 9:18 PM
You could even make this an installation-time option. If you want to enable the switch afterwards, you have to do a factory reset. Then, the attackers convincing the victims would get nothing.
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pas • yesterday at 8:35 PM
then make the unlock cost money
relatively easy for devs, but hard to scale for scammers
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Think about it the way you think about reading the fine print on agreements you sign. These can also have bad consequences.
But I guess not reading the TOS is another wide problem, also fueled by companies like Google.