Google’s Android Lockdown—Why You Need A New Phone In 12 Weeks

Forbes ^ | 1/31/2025 | Zak Doffman

[cuz1961]

.. . The real story is what’s being done to lock down Android, and why you’ll need a newer model phone in 12-weeks time...

The other highlight further narrows the gap to iPhone, removing some of the looser restrictions that enabled threats to more easily fester on its ecosystem than Apple’s. “The Play Integrity API," Google says, “allows developers to check if their apps have been tampered with or are running in potentially compromised environments, helping them to prevent abuse like fraud, bots, cheating, and data theft.” The company also notes that “apps using Play integrity features are seeing 80% lower usage from unverified and untrusted sources on average,” and that “over 91% of app installs on the Google Play Store now use the latest protections of Android 13 or newer.”

Those last two stats are critical. Because Google’s Play Integrity API is changing, and for the 750-million-plus users on Android 12 or older, you may need to go buy a new phone if you can’t run a newer OS to keep your apps functioning as now. . ..

[Openurmind]

Found this in my bookmarks. From Ten years ago and thought you might be interested in the whole reality. :)

https://www.rightsanddissent.org/news/welcome-to-the-matrix-enslaved-by-technology-and-the-internet-of-things/

[MayflowerMadam]

Terrifying.

[Openurmind]

Well, we are now living what that predicted ten years ago... And is going to get worse. Now they want to plant chips in our brains and create Neural networks and hook it to the “Internet of Things”.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/neuralink-implants-brain-chip-first-human-musk-says-2024-01-29/