I say it is psychology. Android tells you what the applications are able to do and by being rather explicite about it, it is scary. It would be great if a user

I say it is psychology. Android tells you what the applications are able to do and by being rather explicite about it, it is scary. It would be great if a user could sandbox those permissions or even outright block them, but I guess that would just lead to malconfiguration, confusion and blind bug reports. Maybe a custom mod will do it some day. I rooted yesterday and now have an iptables based firewall installed that lets me control what applications can access the internet (I guess there are loopholes around it but it is better than nothing).