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Lockheimer looked directly at the jury when he said that.
“We want users to understand that the apps they’re about to sideload haven’t gone through the same level of security checks as the apps we run through the Play Store,” he says.
And we’re seeing that the head of Samsung’s mobile business, DJ Koh, expressed concern in September 2015 that Android wasn’t secured well enough against sideloaded apps (I added the link you see):
WeChat and Didi Kuaidi, on Apple store embed malware in these apps. When this breach happened, Apple just deleted these compromised apps from their store and this blocked the propagation of the compromised app. This is a simple and effective action, however, such an action does not work very well on Android due to Android’s app distribution mechanism allowing sideloading and self-signed apps.
Koh added later: “I think it is time to serious think [sic] about the security baseline of Android and how to improve it.”
