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Orange Decides Against Code Signing

Posted by timothy on from the diminishing-returns dept.

cemysce writes "Orange has decided to yeild to developer and owner pressure and remove code signing requirements from their Orange SPV phone, based on the Microsoft Smartphone 2002 platform. This move was taken after a workaround to the code signing became widespread."

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  1. Only for beta testing by Fruny · · Score: 3, Informative

    Straight from the article.

    "[Orange] will now allow these to run beta code on Orange SPVs without it being signed first."

    "However, Orange still requires developers to undergo the code signing process to be able to sell finished applications to Orange SPV owners"