For two decades, we accepted a bargain: let Apple and Google verify every developer with government papers, and they will keep us safe from malware.

The bargain was always a lie.

Fake apps still steal millions while real developers get banned at the whim of bureaucrats in Cupertino and authoritarian censors in Moscow.

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