Sunday, July 10, 2011

Android 101: What some of those scary application permissions mean

Permissions

We've all heard about bad apps that steal your valuable data and ship it off to the far east, and those discussions always end with one thing -- someone says you need to read an app's permissions before you install it.  Well that's fine, but there is a small problem -- what the heck do those permissions mean?  System tools -- automatically start at boot is easy enough to decipher and understand why it's needed, but what about Your personal information -- read contact data?  Hit the break, and we'll try to figure some of these out together.

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Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/androidcentral/~3/wr4T5uS1kTw/look-application-permissions

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