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Israel don't make Android. Apps can't override how android disables apps at an OS level.
You think Android lets apps override their app disabling feature? You should report that to Google, they’d be shocked to hear it.
Yes. It's not the first time it's been done either. Then there's the loopholes as well, like Meta was doing recently.
Apps that have been disabled at a system level cannot run.
Sure, you tell yourself that buddy. Israel is happy for you to believe it.
Go tell Google, they’ll pay you millions in big bounties for how Israel is doing this. Unless of course you have zero evidence that app developers can do this in Android……
Yeh thought so.
You don't have evidence that Israeli app developers can't do this either.
It's almost as of we're lacking the money, skills, and manpower of a nation or something.
I dont have to prove the negative, its on you to prove that they can.
Even if it was up to me though, the OS prevents apps that have been disabled from running. AOSP’s documentation says this.
Again - show Google it happening and you’ll be an instant millionaire. Why haven’t you done it already? Just DM me the evidence and I’ll do it since you don’t want to.
We have evidence that they can do, simply not evidence that they're doing it currently.
Israeli technology is already used to bypass encryption and security on both Android AND iOS. This despite the documentation showing they have security features that make them safe. Here's just some news articles talking about it over the years: https://gizmodo.com/cops-have-less-time-to-break-into-iphones-thanks-to-ios-18-1-security-measure-2000522523
https://www.msn.com/en-in/technology/software/telangana-govt-seeks-bids-for-israeli-software-to-hack-into-phones/ar-AA1Np36m
https://twoeva.com/2025/04/10/android-apps-spyware-exposed/
https://www.npr.org/2024/07/17/nx-s1-5041752/what-happens-when-law-enforcement-wants-to-break-into-someones-smartphone
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/06/meta-and-yandex-are-de-anonymizing-android-users-web-browsing-identifiers/
And despite it being well known by now that they're able to do this, neither Alphabet nor Apple has been able to (willing to?) stop them.
It would be utterly naive to think that Israel can't make an app that can ignore being disabled, considering they can make software that can straight up get around literal security features allowing law enforcement to enter locked phones. The last article in particular is about bypassing system rules, quote;
Basically, you'd have to e stupid to think that a system saying "permission not allowed" is enough to stop a maliciously intended app, but even more stupid to think Israeli backed technology can't, considering the existence of tools like Pegasus and the past operations and actions of Mossad, along with so many governments adopting Palantir.
At best, you're blissfully ignorant of things, at worst you're part of the problem, to think this pre-installed app can simply be stopped by disabling it. If they seek to spy on you, a disablement isn't going to stop them. It's laughable you think it is. That you think it isn't, really shows how little you actually know or understand the technology.
External PC programs that can be used to break into phones is not the same as apps being able to circumvent OS-level disabling lol.
Okay now I know you're arguing in bad faith. Not only were 2 of the articles about apps on a phone and not external Israeli software, but over half my comment was about on-phone software bypassing permissions.
Goodbye.
None of those articles say a thing about on-device apps being able to overrule being disabled by the OS.
I literally quoted an article saying how meta and Yandex specifically got through operating system features it wasn't supposed to.
Anyone who comes across this chain can easily see at this point you're a bad faith troll now. A bad one at that. This discussion is over. Blocking you now.
But not from being disabled which is what we’re talking about. If it can’t run it can’t do any of that.