Reply to post: Re: 'Bypass the Play Store and this is what can happen'

We're all sick of Fortnite, but the flaw found in its downloader is the latest way to attack Android

Claptrap314 Silver badge

Re: 'Bypass the Play Store and this is what can happen'

No, the problem is that Google promulgated an unsafe-by-default system. There is absolutely 0 reason that applications should be able to read (let along write) data for other applications by default. The fact that this is not the case demonstrates just how much Google cares about the end users.

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