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This is actually one of the features I like in Android. You can strictly limit where an app can access. They are tightening the screws with each release as well

• XorNot 2y ago
  This is what SELinux provides though, is the thing. What we've really messed up on with desktop is not getting this to a state where it's reasonably manageable.
• TeMPOraL 2y ago
  I'm torn about this feature. The case you describe is helpful, but I mostly notice this feature when it's preventing me from snooping in application-specific folders of third party apps. I hate the feeling of knowing that a lot of data my phone is processing is completely invisible and inaccessible to me, the phone's purported owner.
  • nicolas_t 2y ago
    Yes, any such feature should be bypassable by the owner. I hate that on phone they've decided that the owner doesn't have complete rights to their own system.
• raxxorraxor 2y ago
  Problem is again that these screws also do apply to the user and smartphone OS are the worst role models I can think of. Smartphone OS now are neither particularly secure, nor very useful considering the relative power of what the devices could do in theory. Sure, there are ways around it, but to me the ecology of phone OS is disastrous enough, that I just don't bother with it aside for doing calls and using it as a mobile router. Even if it is a shitty router that could be so much better. And no, I don't want an OS that gives me an advertiser ID and gaslights me that that is for my best. And no, I don't care that I can randomize it with a press, it is designed to ID you and at some point you will be too lazy to care about your quite shitty operating system.