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Why Google decided to plant the Fortnite bug story, it seems:

Part of a document labeled RAW MEETING NOTES:

PR strategy

DaveK: Users are at risk in several ways, many copycats, it’s just a mess; somebody (Google?) should be telling the world how bad this is. Can we say it? Or will Epic just refuse to work with us?

Sameer: Ultimately we want Samsung to stop this kind of stuff (enabling the FN installer), we want other developers to realize this is complicated and there’s a lot of ways to mess up, and as a result of those 2 we want FN to feel the pressure and make fixes, and we want the world to know that this is not safe to do this. We need to make it safe and have an aggressive future action for GPP. We need to lay down a case for the reasons why we have to do this. On Samsung - what is the best way to make them feel a tremendous amount of heat?

JamieK: I should hear back from ES this afternoon, his team is looking into it. A chance he may conclude that they think this is stupid and they should not be doing this - 50/50 chance. If they don’t, then we need to tell them about this and the additional vulnerabilities they are enabling. 

DaveK is Android security head Dave Kleidermacher, Sameer is VP Sameer Samat, and JamieK is Google’s product manager in contact with Epic Games.


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