This, as presented here, is patently fake news. Sideloading is not affected by these changes in Google Play, as the Bundle format is only used when apps are submitted and then consecutively downloaded and installed from Google Play, but not when they’re sideloaded.

Even after Google making the Bundle format mandatory…

The real problem is here that this is because these devices were designed by incompetent people (or people who were overridden by incompetent ones in their decisions), as the problem is really easily solved.

All they’d need to do is store all data “encrypted” (a simple XOR is enough), and at factory resets they should…

Really.

For one, you requesting a new password doesn’t solve the problem of lockout of the legitimate owner at all. For one, because it’s not the password change per se, but the unlocking of the account that would allow you to log in again. Also because by the time you’re going to use that password, there could have…

It worked for a while.... until it didn’t for a second

Not what the title and article said

Because locking the account is not an option, as that would also lock out the legitimate owner (which could have possibly just as dire consequences as a security breach), and there’s no way for the system to discern between legitimate owners and hackers other than checking the passwords they supplied

“Richard Branson Set to Become the First Billionaire in Space”

“An elite team of hackers connected to Russian military intelligence have been using brute force attacks to target hundreds of organizations throughout the world”
Yeah, right. “Elite hackers” and “brute force attacks” don’t go together in a sentence, for a multitude of reasons.

“and Apple was touting its inherent OS security before there was Mac App Store”
Which was just as much a lie, as is that the App Store would protect Apple consumers from scams

“Microsoft announced the change by updating its support page, which was spotted by Thurrot.”

“and look into altering the rotation of the Earth and/or moon”
Umm. No. Rotation = spinning motion of an object about its own axis. The orbital motion around another object is called “revolution”. And for one this time, it wasn’t the clueless politician who used the wrong term (at least not in the quoted text, because…

“Yes, it does do that.”

Even without flight logs, the footage on the card itself could show where the drone came from, where other places it has been used to film, and even possibly have the owners on camera

Drone operator found

“You? Because PK/SK does exactly what I say it does. It validates the identity of the sender of a transaction so that the receiver knows who they are receiving a message coming from.”

“PK/SK only secures transactions. It doesn’t ensure that the data sent in the transaction hasn’t been changed after it’s reached its destination.”

“it was never clear just why NFTs were commanding such staggering prices. Bragging rights?”
Money laundering

“I’m repeating myself.”

“The supposed contract is only pertinent if it establishes this guy had some sort of rights or ownership to begin with.”
But when Woz’s layers they say “oh, but they didn’t even shake hands”, they are not challenging this, ie. Reilly’s ownership or rights to begin with.

“What IP was stolen is my question.”
It’s immaterial to the “they didn’t shake hands” argument not being a valid defense against IP theft. As already stated, that would only matter if they’d been accused of breach of contract, because then the fact that they have no written contract and didn’t even have shake hands…