Website that allowed Huawei phones to install Google apps taken down

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Website that allowed Huawei phones to install Google apps taken down

After security researcher highlighted the "backdoor" to sidestep a US ban.

A China-based website that allowed for manual installation of Google's Android apps on Huawei's newly launched Mate 30 devices went offline on Wednesday after a security researcher highlighted the "backdoor" to sidestep a US ban. The link to the website, LZPlay, surfaced about 10 days earlier on ...

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