Google Play has been spreading advanced Android malware for years
Let this be another nail in the coffin of the "walled garden" farce.<p>We learn this lesson again and again. People want someone to trust, but a bureaucracy isn't trustworthy. It has its own agenda and values inconsistent with yours. They take 30% from everybody whether they approve malware or not, and whether they reject legitimate apps or not.<p>Trust doesn't come from size. If you want someone to vet your apps, it has to be someone whose interests are actually aligned with yours, not just whoever is big enough to force everybody through the tollgate into their store.