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A fake app masquerading as password manager LastPass just got pulled from the App Store | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
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[–] 47 points 2 years ago (2 children)

To be fair, things like this are pretty rare.

The more common experience is that those reviewers are anal as hell reject people for petty stuff. This malware guy lucked out and got the burned out app reviewer who didn’t look twice.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    They’re rare but they’re very effective, because people have their guard down there.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    Yeah, but as the poor sap who has been deemed “computer guy” for every elderly parent, aunt and uncle in the family, I think the Play and App Stores do a decent job of keeping malware in check.

    It’s not perfect, but about once every year or two I have to put out a malware fire with a Windows laptop in the family. Dealing with the phones is less of a headache. Especially the iOS devices.

    I wish iOS made it easier for people like me to remove those guardrails for my own needs, but for my 80 year old parents, I’m all for keeping them living in Apple and Google’s stores.

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