Reply to post: Re: Google Play immune?

XCodeGhost iOS infection toll rises from 39 to a WHOPPING 4,000 apps

Bob Vistakin
Holmes

Re: Google Play immune?

Its this "rigorous testing" which puzzles me. The whole thing sounds really phishy (sorry). What I mean is, say you find an app with malware. How can you tell if that malware has been added unknowingly by infected build tools, or knowingly by an evil developer using legit tools? Apps are apps, and do things apps do as per any software no matter how they were created. What on earth can an infected build tool do to an app that a sneaky developer can't, to the extent it waltzes through Apples defenses this way?

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