Google tries to claim it was concerned about fake fortnite not surprise samsung competition

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Posted Nov 13, 2023 at 11:00 PM UTC

Google tries to claim it was concerned about fake Fortnite — not surprise Samsung competition.

Sameer Samat sent his “something is wrong” message on August 8th, 2018. On August 13th, a different Googler had another reason to be concerned:

I took a deeper look on Friday and discovered a vulnerability in the Fortnite Installer (and Galaxy Apps private installer API) which allows a malicious app to install a fake version of Fortnite with arbitrary permissions granted.

That sounds concerning, but it also happened days later. Was Google’s kneejerk really about security or competition? I’m genuinely not sure. Could be both?

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