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Alternative take: maybe the app developer is combining random snippets found online mostly without knowing what he is doing. Remember that not long ago, Facebo
by daghamm 2y ago
Alternative take: maybe the app developer is combining random snippets found online mostly without knowing what he is doing.
Remember that not long ago, Facebook was caught having deliberately bad sample code with too broad permissions
https://privacyinternational.org/report/2647/how-apps-android-share-data-facebook-report https://privacyinternational.org/report/2647/how-apps-androi...
- heroprotagonist 2y agoAssuming ignorance, would you trust said app developer with remote management of your device if he accidentally asked for it?
- daghamm 2y agoMy point is that this could very well be incompetent instead of malice. Doesn't really change anything and I would not install an app that requests all these permissions and I am also very careful with apps distributed outside the official store. With that said, Android by default disables dangerous permissions and almost everything has to be opted in these days.
- dzdt 2y agoThe horseshoe principle applies on the malice/incompetence dimension. Any sufficiently advanced malice is indistinguishable from incompetence. (Disguising ill intent by as incompetent design is one of the strongest deniability approaches.) But also any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice. (A bad actor can fully compromise an incompetently designed system as well as if the vulnerabilities had been intentional.)