https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/android-developers/OvCcdvO6jZY https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/android-developers/O... It looks like android.pe

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/android-developers/OvCcdvO6jZY https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/android-developers/O... It looks like android.permission.BRICK and a number of other permissions are restricted to applications that are signed by the same certificate as your firmware. Thus, such an application would only actually brick your phone it was created by the same organization who developed the phone's firmware (in most cases, your mobile phone carrier, or the phone's manfacturer). In either case, you would never get the opportunity to be prompted to accept this permissions dialog (because the application would either be pre-installed on the device, or arrive in a firmware update). The only real danger would be installing third-party firrmware on your device that contained such an application. However, since the third-party developer would already have the ability to modify every single application on the phone, this is not really that big of a deal.