VideoLAN @videolan App Stores were a mistake. Currently, we cannot update VLC on Windows Store, and we cannot update VLC on Android Play Store, without reducing security or dropping a lot of users… For now, iOS App Store still allows us to ship for iOS9, but until when?

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    8 months ago

    Google requiring their private signing key is insane, and goes completely against the concept of private/public keys.

    Why is Google asking for this?

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      8 months ago

      See also: NSA PRISM

      Member when all the companies listed released a PR statement within 24 hours of each other, all very basic and denied allowing the NSA direct access to their users?

      I member.

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      C-I-A Confidentiality, Integrity, Accessibility. They don’t need the keys for C or A. Only one option remains. To modify the code and pass it off as code VLC wrote or signed off on.

      Likely to install malware and re-sign. Brazen identity theft.

      Maybe I’m wrong, they could use VLC’s private keys to gobble encrypted communications too.