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Re: [LUG] [OT?] permissions control on android
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- Subject: Re: [LUG] [OT?] permissions control on android
- From: Martijn Grooten <martijn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2015 14:56:34 +0000
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On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 11:22:17AM +0000, Gordon Henderson wrote:
> Other secure messaging services are available. Signal for example.
> As recommended by that nice Mr. Snowden...
Signal is nice and, more relevantly, has some of the cleverest people
when it comes to secure messaging working on it.
As for permissions, one of the problems with them is that they tend to
be very broad. So to allow some WhatsApp users to take photos, the app
needs to ask all users permission to use the camera.
https://www.whatsapp.com/faq/en/android/28000004
In theory it would be possible to make the permissions both more
finegrained and have the option to deny some of them and still install
the app. In practice, that would probably quickly become a support hell.
Martijn.
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