With this week’s release of Android 16, Google added a new security feature to Android, called Advanced Protection. At-risk people—like journalists, activists, or politicians—should consider turning on. Here’s what it does, and how to decide if it’s a good fit for your security needs.To get some...
Google Play is the part of Android that is most threatening. On many devices, you can’t disable it without ADB trickery. And it delegates permissions to apps in total subversion of the permission system we were allegedly being kept “safe” by.