Google's security

So here is an interesting finding of mine. Recently I released an app on ios and android. Long story short, Google found some security vulnerability when reviewing our app. Nothing serious, just some old package not complying with latest android version. But yes, vulnerability in a sense that it can be hacked.

Google told us to fix it by the end of 2020. We fixed it the same week, but our app got released with that vulnerability in one of the versions.

Now, the closest thing that I found publicly available from. Google to scan & find vulnerability in apps is Play Protect.

And guessed what - I scanned our insecure app, and it told me no vulnerabilities 🤷‍♂

So the equation is this:

Vulnerable app A

Google to devs - oh, that's insecure, dangerous, please fix it.

Google to users - this app is all good, no worries.

😐 Do I trust Google after that?

#insight