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The simple fact of the matter is, this shouldn't even be necessary. An application shouldn't be sniffing the user's private data from another app without expli
by philpem 8y ago
The simple fact of the matter is, this shouldn't even be necessary.
An application shouldn't be sniffing the user's private data from another app without explicit permission.
This is literally the sort of thing a piece of malware would do, grab your data and upload it to the botnet...
- k_sze 8y agoI agree. But it doesn’t hurt to put up preemptive defense. In fact, the OS should also isolate and encrypt per-app profiles. And when one app wants to access data that belongs to another app, it should ask the user’s permission. I don’t know if any of the major desktop OSes (including Linus distros) already provide this kind of mechanism, and that it’s just the app developers not bothering to use the mechanisms.