alt Hacker News> This attack vector requires both that the user enabled developer settings and that they have remote adb enabled.
Not just that. A non-development Android build will also prompt the user when a connection is made to authorize the client's key.
This once again isn't about security of users, this is about security of the company's interests.
Google just got hit by yet another record antitrust fine by the EU [1]. But as long as they see these fines as cost of doing business, nothing will change. Especially if it always takes almost a decade to push this through the judicial system. Their net income last year alone was $130 Billion.
[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/eu-top-court-dismisses-google-...