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CyanogenMod lets you change permissions of apps: http://review.cyanogenmod.com/#change,4055 http://review.cyanogenmod.com/#change,4055 They drew the line at le

• mindslight 15y ago
  Except (AFAIK) the API calls fail when a permission has been revoked. A non-defensively coded application will most likely crash when it tries to use a revoked permission. A developer has little motivation to support a user taking app permissions into their own hands. What really needs to happen is for the call to return a sensible value for what the application is allowed to access. It would even be handy to return a subset of the contacts list, say if a user is willing to take a risk of spamming friends but not professional contacts. A user would set the base permission for all newly installed apps, and would increase an app's permission after they used it long enough to trust it. The only thing the current system does is fake consent for misbehaving apps. I am aware of that rejected patch, and I can only hope that the CM people will overcome their fear in the future (or maybe a security-conscious friendly fork).