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“That would be a clever way for them to avoid the unknown sources friction entirely.”

Kleidermacher, in a August 2018 email about the “fake Fortnite” bug that Google planted a story about in the press.

It wasn’t long before a member of the Android security team suggested that perhaps Google should make this public:

“(A Project Zero style external bug would be the most fun!),” they wrote.

We’re now seeing notes from the internal meeting where Google discussed what to do about it.

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