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Viacheslav A.

@nixCraft They don't seem to use any sim-cards, so they don't need IMSI or ICCID, I guess. Why would they need actual mobile motherboards and all this tinkering then, couldn't they get by with several emulators working in parallel?

23 March at 13:48 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mastodon.social
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maybenot

@via4 @nixCraft
google's wivedine? or some other 'trusted device' thing?

23 March at 13:50 | Open on mstdn.social
Viacheslav A.

@maybenot @nixCraft I guess you're right.
Out of sheer interest I tested creation of google and instagram accounts on a clean android device, and both were successful without even providing a phone number. Same trick didn't play out through a regular desktop browser. So there is indeed difference, but the question stays, can an emulator be configured to mimic the actual device close enough?
Unfortunately, I don't have any android emulators available here, so cannot do a proper test just yet

23 March at 14:06 | Open on mastodon.social
Gorobar

@via4 @maybenot @nixCraft I've asked myself the same question - would have thought a virtualized/emulated environment was the way to go something like that
(also: why can one avoid detection with this hardware array and not with a simulation?)
I'm not a specialist anyway, but this is interesting...

(commenting to see follow-ups)

23 March at 14:58 | Open on rollenspiel.social
Daniel Fisher(lennybacon)
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