Yep, back in the very early 2000s, this was something we did at school to jokke around.
The cupholder joke was neat, it had a nice official looking UI with the Coca Cola logo, and a corporate style promotion text, there was a button to click to accept the “gift”, and only then did the CD drive open.
Then I remember running a joke program that would make the startbutton jump around on the screen.
Now they’ll install any random fucking app a company tells them to install. Oh, you want to see a menu at the restaurant? Just install this app. How about fuck you?
Modern mobile OS’ and apps are quite strictly sandboxed so, with reasonable vetting like Google Play Store and Apple Store, you can reasonably safely install random crap and uninstall it later. It’s a different realm from running random binary executables.
Seemingly innocuous Play store apps get found to be viruses all the time, most recent in my memory being a few barcode scanner apps, farthest back in my memory being flashlight apps back before android did it natively, but there’s been more over the years. Trusting apps “because play store” is horrible practice.
Here’s an unsigned APK that’s just our website in a container plus all of the tracking and data mining we could shove in there. Why dont you go ahead and oauth us to all of your social media accounts too? Don’t worry, we only need post permissions so that we can bring you these sweet customized bargains.
People would click God damn anything two decades ago
Yep, back in the very early 2000s, this was something we did at school to jokke around.
The cupholder joke was neat, it had a nice official looking UI with the Coca Cola logo, and a corporate style promotion text, there was a button to click to accept the “gift”, and only then did the CD drive open.
Then I remember running a joke program that would make the startbutton jump around on the screen.
Now they’ll install any random fucking app a company tells them to install. Oh, you want to see a menu at the restaurant? Just install this app. How about fuck you?
Modern mobile OS’ and apps are quite strictly sandboxed so, with reasonable vetting like Google Play Store and Apple Store, you can reasonably safely install random crap and uninstall it later. It’s a different realm from running random binary executables.
Seemingly innocuous Play store apps get found to be viruses all the time, most recent in my memory being a few barcode scanner apps, farthest back in my memory being flashlight apps back before android did it natively, but there’s been more over the years. Trusting apps “because play store” is horrible practice.
I still couldn’t resist to be honest. It can be done safely. Well, mostly. Some things may decide to overwrite the BIOS with Nyan cat, for example.
So nothing’s changed?
“It said nude pictures of Anna Kournikova…”
I’m listening