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> Google should have figured out how to let applications sandbox data on the SD It's called put your data in /data. You get a private app data folder by defaul
by kllrnohj 13y ago
> Google should have figured out how to let applications sandbox data on the SD
It's called put your data in /data. You get a private app data folder by default. /sdcard and /data are both internal storage on the majority of phones, neither points at a physical sd card slot.
And seriously, who wants their messages stored on /sdcard anyway? You pop out the sdcard and all your text messages vanish? What kind of brain dead decision is that?
- jdewald 13y agoReading the article, the data the "exploit" looks at is only if the user has turned on the backup feature (disabled by default).
- miken123 13y agoThe backup feature is on by default, scheduled to backup at 4:00 daily. I can't find an option to turn it off.
- tjgq 13y agoI think the widespread practice of Android applications storing potentially large data in /sdcard dates to a time when /data was extremely small on most phones, and would fill up quite rapidly if you had a large number of applications installed. I don't think that's the case any longer, at least certainly not for an SMS app.