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I addressed this explicitly: an advanced user could create fake contacts, take or upload fake photos (for example, I might not care about EXIF data), create fake SMS's. How should an app determine the difference between a user with a new phone with few or no SMS's, and a user who has chosen to fake a few or no SMS's? More to the point, the phone could simply generate fake content algorithmically, and these algorithms could change all the time. How would an app keep up? If it helps you think about it, at this point the phone is the bot and the App is the one trying to keep a bot from successfully using its API. Surely possible, but not "trivial".


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