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>Android users can protect themselves by only installing applications from secure app stores like Google Play and installing a mobile anti-virus product on their device.

F-Droid is a much better option for consumers. If I download an app that runs on my hardware and uses my mobile data, then it would be dame good idea that NOT ONLY the source is available, but there is build-able from the available source.

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I love going through source code and make my own build as much as the next geek here on HN, but let’s be honest here, to the average consumer both your comment and mine reads as gibberish.

The threat report is written with the average consumer in mind, not a consumer who can read source code well enough to understand if there’s funny business going on.

That's why using F-Droid, which distributes apps *already built* by them, is such a good idea (albeit with a few risks of its own).

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