{"id":12326,"date":"2024-08-16T14:50:49","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T14:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topat10.com\/?p=12326"},"modified":"2024-08-16T14:50:49","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T14:50:49","slug":"why-did-samsung-take-control-of-my-banking-app-inside-androids-clobbering-dilemma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topat10.com\/?p=12326","title":{"rendered":"Why Did Samsung Take Control of My Banking App? Inside Android\u2019s \u2018Clobbering\u2019 Dilemma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Samsung and Bank of America didn\u2019t immediately respond to requests for comment for this story. Google and Epic both declined to comment.<\/p>\n<div class=\"GenericCalloutWrapper-tojWn iNCMJD callout--has-top-border\" data-testid=\"GenericCallout\">\n<figure class=\"AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed\">\n<div class=\"AssetEmbedAssetContainer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-container\"><span class=\"SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB responsive-asset AssetEmbedResponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__responsive-asset\"><picture class=\"ResponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedResponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__responsive-asset responsive-image\">\n<div data-test=\"aspect-ratio-container\" class=\"AspectRatioContainer-bJHpJz hNZiUH\">\n<div class=\"aspect-ratio--overlay-container\"><noscript><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.wired.com\/photos\/66be7486b425bdbcbdbbeeb5\/master\/w_120,c_limit\/Google-App-Store-Business-1178946623.jpg 120w, https:\/\/media.wired.com\/photos\/66be7486b425bdbcbdbbeeb5\/master\/w_240,c_limit\/Google-App-Store-Business-1178946623.jpg 240w, https:\/\/media.wired.com\/photos\/66be7486b425bdbcbdbbeeb5\/master\/w_320,c_limit\/Google-App-Store-Business-1178946623.jpg 320w, https:\/\/media.wired.com\/photos\/66be7486b425bdbcbdbbeeb5\/master\/w_640,c_limit\/Google-App-Store-Business-1178946623.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"100vw\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.wired.com\/photos\/66be7486b425bdbcbdbbeeb5\/3:2\/w_120,c_limit\/Google-App-Store-Business-1178946623.jpg 120w, https:\/\/media.wired.com\/photos\/66be7486b425bdbcbdbbeeb5\/3:2\/w_240,c_limit\/Google-App-Store-Business-1178946623.jpg 240w, https:\/\/media.wired.com\/photos\/66be7486b425bdbcbdbbeeb5\/3:2\/w_320,c_limit\/Google-App-Store-Business-1178946623.jpg 320w, https:\/\/media.wired.com\/photos\/66be7486b425bdbcbdbbeeb5\/3:2\/w_640,c_limit\/Google-App-Store-Business-1178946623.jpg 640w, https:\/\/media.wired.com\/photos\/66be7486b425bdbcbdbbeeb5\/3:2\/w_960,c_limit\/Google-App-Store-Business-1178946623.jpg 960w, https:\/\/media.wired.com\/photos\/66be7486b425bdbcbdbbeeb5\/3:2\/w_1280,c_limit\/Google-App-Store-Business-1178946623.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/media.wired.com\/photos\/66be7486b425bdbcbdbbeeb5\/3:2\/w_1600,c_limit\/Google-App-Store-Business-1178946623.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"100vw\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"An image of applications in the Google App Store.\" class=\"ResponsiveImageContainer-eybHBd fptoWY responsive-image__image lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/media.wired.com\/photos\/66be7486b425bdbcbdbbeeb5\/3:2\/w_1600%2Cc_limit\/Google-App-Store-Business-1178946623.jpg\"\/><\/noscript><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/picture><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptionCredit-ejegDm iUEiRd isTgyB fNaHcW caption__credit\">Photograph: Getty Images<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Cross-store updates trace back to Android\u2019s roots in the fairly open Linux platform, and they come with benefits. As app updates go through security reviews and other store-specific checks, a download might arrive at varying times across app stores. By allowing any of the app stores installed on their phone to update an app, users can ensure their apps are up to date as soon as possible to resolve bugs or security vulnerabilities, says Bogdan Botezatu, director of threat research and reporting at cybersecurity company Bitdefender. \u201cUsers should not be worried about getting the update,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">In an encouraging sign, an analysis of three popular apps at WIRED\u2019s request by Esther Onfroy, cofounder of security research company Defensive Lab Agency, found no difference between copies of the same app downloaded from Google Play and the Galaxy Store.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">There are risks to cross-store updates, though those risks are remote, Onfroy says. An app store with weak security could be exploited to ship a malicious update, and having more stores on a device raises the prospect of just one of them being corrupted. An app store also could wrap an update with code that enables some form of intrusive data collection.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Users are more likely to encounter nuisances like updates from other app stores that don\u2019t function properly. Edward Cunningham, a director of product management at Google, <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.cand.364325\/gov.uscourts.cand.364325.671.3.pdf\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.cand.364325\/gov.uscourts.cand.364325.671.3.pdf&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.cand.364325\/gov.uscourts.cand.364325.671.3.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told Donato in court papers<\/a> that in 2022, smartphone maker Oppo\u2019s app store released an unauthorized and outdated update of Google\u2019s Chrome browser. Some users who installed the update couldn\u2019t load web pages on Chrome.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\"><a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/MarvelStrikeForce\/comments\/mbv4xe\/how_to_stop_google_play_overwriting_my_amazon\/\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/MarvelStrikeForce\/comments\/mbv4xe\/how_to_stop_google_play_overwriting_my_amazon\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/MarvelStrikeForce\/comments\/mbv4xe\/how_to_stop_google_play_overwriting_my_amazon\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">On Reddit<\/a>, users have complained about Google Play updating apps downloaded from the Amazon Appstore, stifling their ability to access subscription features or pay with virtual currencies unique to apps from Amazon\u2019s marketplace. <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.cand.364325\/gov.uscourts.cand.364325.671.0.pdf\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.cand.364325\/gov.uscourts.cand.364325.671.0.pdf&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.cand.364325\/gov.uscourts.cand.364325.671.0.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">In a June court filing<\/a>, Google\u2019s attorneys acknowledged that users can lose in-app purchases and subscriptions. App stores support varying billing systems, and the billing system used in the current update of the app may be the only one that works. So if a game downloaded from Epic\u2019s store is updated by Google Play, it may be Google and no longer Epic that gets a commission on in-app purchases, and items acquired in the past may not function as intended.<\/p>\n<aside aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"PullQuoteEmbedWrapper-sc-EoVjf kgVYDs\">\n<div class=\"PullQuoteEmbedContent-sc-kTcfhx dzGCEG\">\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cNo one should have apps installed on a smartphone under their noses.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"paywall\">Yale Privacy Lab founder Sean O\u2019Brien<\/span><\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Cross-store updates also can trigger more frequent app crashes, in part because they can disrupt the staggered launches that app developers sometimes use to catch bugs before they spread\u2014the sort of measure that helps avert disasters such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/crowdstrike-outage-update-windows\/\">the recent CrowdStrike meltdown<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Adding to the confusion over clobbering, app developers can limit <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/developer.android.com\/google\/play\/app-updates#prevent-updates\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/developer.android.com\/google\/play\/app-updates#prevent-updates&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/developer.android.com\/google\/play\/app-updates#prevent-updates\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">updates<\/a> from multiple app stores by publishing to each store under different credentials or version numbers. But then if users do want to switch to updates from a different app store, they may have to reinstall the app by downloading a new version from their preferred store, and they might lose some data in the process. Users who want to preserve the current version of an app because they prefer it also may be disappointed if they turn off updates from one store while not realizing that they need to also turn off updates from another store.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung and Bank of America didn\u2019t immediately respond to requests for comment for this story. Google and Epic both declined to comment. Photograph: Getty Images Cross-store updates trace back to Android\u2019s roots in the fairly open Linux platform, and they come with benefits. 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