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Here's another scenario: idiotic developers ask for a boatload of permissions "just in case" and don't realize how sketchy it looks.
by EponymousCoward 15y ago
Here's another scenario: idiotic developers ask for a boatload of permissions "just in case" and don't realize how sketchy it looks.
- dlikhten 15y agoYea, Or they knew about the free app of the day and made a special farming one that's essentially the ad version minus displayed ads. I find it crazy the permissions required even from paid apps. And of course amazon does not tell you them until AFTER you bought and downloaded the app.
- newobj 15y agoRight from the technical details on that page (scroll about 1/3 of the way down): "Application Permissions: (Help me understand what permissions mean) Read only access to phone state. Get information about the currently or recently running tasks: a thumbnail representation of the tasks, what activities are running in it, etc. Write to external storage. Open network sockets. Access information about networks."