Shocker: Smut-viewing Android apps actually steal your data A brace of supposed porn apps for Android actually push ransomware or steal personal data from mobile device, cloud security firm Zscaler warns. One strain of Android malware scares the user with a warning screen that falsely accusing them of watching images of child abuse. After installing the app on a device, the user will …
That's what I was thinking, the phone has a media player and a web browser, no need for an app... I would also assume that the more popular porn websites would have a mobile-friendly version available.
At the very least, a micro-SD card loaded with pre-downloaded videos should work well enough (I do this with regular movies and TV when I have to travel to Saudi Arabia for work since pretty much everything fun is banned in that country)
It seems to me one side of this story is missing. Google Play does not allow porn apps, so anyone looking for something like that has to look elsewhere. Meaning this advice is nearly worthless:
We are seeing an increasing number of adult themed Android malware apps using pornography to lure victims. To avoid being a victim of such malware, it is always best to download apps only from trusted app stores, such as Google Play
Is there a "trusted" app store that allows porn? If not, there should be. But unless or until there is, telling people to use one is little more than slut shaming.
More to the point, at what point did "scantily clad women" become pornography? Talk about scope creep...the meaning of pornography was originally limited to pictures of, or writing about, paid for sex (the porn bit is from the Greek word for prostitute.) If the people doing it are doing so for love rather than money, it's erotica.
But I'm the cynic who thinks the real reason the government wants to ban all this stuff on the Internet is so that its friends can make more money selling it. Think of the children dividends.
"More to the point, at what point did "scantily clad women" become pornography? Talk about scope creep..."
Welcome to the wonderful world of modern mass-media feminism and its "sexually-objectifying women" and "male gaze" mantras. These days, any picture of a woman showing more skin than face, wrists and ankles and/or wearing anything more revealing or form-fitting than army fatigues, is classed as objectification, therefore pornography.
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