VLC - App stores were a mistake
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?
What exactly is the issue preventing them from updating the Android version?
Also, if that’s the case, it sounds like OP’s title is a bit misleading, since the particular app store isnt the problem.
In addition to the private key thing, the Play Store is requiring them to drop support for APIs older than API 30.
Which in effect means VLC can no longer be updated on AndroidTVs running Android 11 or earlier.
Which is millions of customers, according to VLC
From their Twitter:
If you wonder why we can’t update the VLC on Android version, it’s because Google refuses to let us update:
It’s not much, just dozens of millions of people use Android TV before Android-11…
Maybe we should tell users to buy new TVs? #electronicWaste
Google requiring their private signing key is insane, and goes completely against the concept of private/public keys.
Why is Google asking for this?
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.
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’s 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.
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