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I absolutely agree. The current warnings are inadequate because the average phone user does not bother to read them and cannot understand them. The average us
by sswam 16y ago
I absolutely agree. The current warnings are inadequate because the average phone user does not bother to read them and cannot understand them.
The average user does not think up malware exploit-cases to convince himself that full internet access combined with the universal implicit 'read anything off the SD card' permission is not a good thing. He just clicks the funny rubber cow and listens to the moo sounds!
If games want to display ads, that would be okay, but they need a more limited permission which gives them internet access to their home server only (like java applets) and no access to local filesystems except a little space for their own settings and files. I think there should also be a declaration of ad-spamminess in the manifest so that people can avoid such games. I really don't trust random closed-source freeware games with my filesystems.