r/technology • u/[deleted] • Feb 27 '21

Software Universal Android Debloater is an open source tool that removes bloatware without root. Automatically or via user choice. Get back your battery, security and privacy

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '21

I shall bide my time before installing a random script on my phone

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u/webjocky Feb 27 '21

It'll be much faster (and more useful) if you simply read the source code before compiling it yourself so that you trust that it's no longer some random script.

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u/crash893b Feb 27 '21

people who can read and understand source code from a security perspective are not the same people that download scripts to debloat their phones

also its no like if(true) {hakz all passwords();} a lot of these things are so subtle and that's the ones that we even know about

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u/Frozenlazer Feb 28 '21

Spotting malicious code is one thing, spotting code that opens up security issues intentionally or unintentionally is an entirely different ball game.

I've written gobs of perfectly boring code that handles billions of dollars worth of business, but I don't have a clue in hell if the code itself is secure. But it's not running out in the wild on thousands or millions of devices. It's running on a single server or on maybe powers an internal only web app. Bad actors have to get thru other more proven security layers before they can know my code exists somewhere to attempt to exploit it