If I thought that a file manager would steal all my data, I'd never install it. On (most) desktops there's no easy choice: apps will have permissions, but you m

If I thought that a file manager would steal all my data, I'd never install it. On (most) desktops there's no easy choice: apps will have permissions, but you might be able to sue the author for illegal access if they took all your data. On mobile, suddenly, it's: lol, you gave it away! That makes little sense. Yes, we should have better sandboxes - but we still have very few (none) usable general operating systems with Internet access that are "secure beyond trust". Absurdly, I'd be more confident in a typical Debian install with thousands of programs from "main", some running in the kernel - than a typical Android device. Because of presumed incentives for the volunteers/employees working on debian and the various upstream projects. This is 99% about trust and incentives and 1% about capabilities.