alt Hacker News> This started with phishing
It didn't.
Phishing is just a pretext. Google didn't care about Phishing for the first 20 years of Android. Why do they now? Because it serves as argument to close their platform a little more (which is a trend that has been going on for years).
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frollogaston • today at 9:15 AM
I do think it's about Google trying to squeeze profits out of Android, but is there more direct evidence of this? Cause I always have to wonder if it's something else like KYC.
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I think they care now because of pressure from the governments of the countries involved.
And perhaps because ten and twenty years ago, the sums stolen were small. Now they're in the billions.