This was Likely Recently Auto-Installed on your Phone.

[dinkledorph@lemmy.world]

Infrastructure to give Google system wide control over what content you can and cannot view.

[patatahooligan@lemmy.world]

As far as I know, the apps are not intercepting the text messages for passcodes. The messages have a specific format and a hash to indicate which app they are targeting. It is up to the messages app to read the message and to forward the code. This design should not need to give the apps any access to your messages.

[qqq@lemmy.world]

There are definitely good, non malicious reasons to have it as a separate app and that should actually be preferred. Off the top of my head:

• Separation of permissions - it only has the permissions it asks for instead of every permission messages has
• It can be disabled/removed without disabling messages
• it can be reused by other applications if that's a desirable feature

[voodooattack@lemmy.world]

Hotdog/not hotdog finally out?

[solrize@lemmy.world]

Thanks, it says "install" so I must not have it. Whew

[idkwhatusernametoputherelolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Ham radio time

[idkwhatusernametoputherelolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

A "dumb phone" these days is really just an android phone with more user restrictions and less security, but all the same spyware.

[wogi@lemmy.world]

I found this in my app list, it hadn't asked for any permissions. If it's looking at every image I get, it's doing so extremely discreetly.

Sus. Very sus.

[wogi@lemmy.world]

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