hsr comments on This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people

[–] hsr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 62 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Uhm excuse me is this app available in an official app store? Does this mean ICE SIDELOADED THEIR APP?

[–] Hotzilla@sopuli.xyz 21 points 1 year ago

Serious answer to non-serious question, corpos can deliver apps to phones past app stores, e.g. intune/company portal etc.

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[–] lectricleopard@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago (3 children)

No way they could explain how to do that to these apes. Apple and Google are complicit in this, they like being able to bribe Trump. Probably just need to add their name to the list of people that can see it in the app store.

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[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 year ago (1 child)

It's likely a work profile type dealio, right? My last job you could activate the work profile and it automatically installed the work appropriate apps.

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[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 8 points 1 year ago

Yes. Easily. They can probably bypass all of the app store review requirements n shit too that way.

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[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

No, they are just using a standard MDM solution. Device gets setup on the organization Mobile Device Management system, and it has its own app store with the apps the business uses. There is not requirement for apps to be listed in the App Store or Play Store. Any business can provide their own apps for use in their MDM system.

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