India’s telecoms ministry has privately asked smartphone makers to preload all new devices with a state-owned cyber security app that cannot be deleted, a government order showed

  • raef@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    Isn’t it a little suspicious that nearly every one who downloaded it later had their phone stolen?

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      11 minutes ago

      It does say lost or stolen. I usually keep my phone on vibrate so when I set it down on a wired place at my home, I often use Google’s find my phone feature to make it ring instead of looking around the house. They could be counting things like that.