Malware in the browser: how you might get hacked by a Chrome extension

Re:Malware in the browser: how you might get hacked by a Chr... by firewalkwithme on Monday July 18, 2016 @02:54PM (#12117294)

I do read the permissions for Android apps - they all want permissions to everything. For no good reason. Enter apathy

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Re:Malware in the browser: how you might get hacked by a Chr... by rogerbinns on Monday July 18, 2016 @06:11PM (#12118341)

There is a very good reason. Apps can auto-update (the default) if they haven't added permissions over the previous versions. Consequently it is very common practise to add every permission you can conceive of using at the beginning, versus having to support a large body of users who haven't updated your app in ages.

In theory some very recent barely used newer Android version fixes this by asking for permissions at first use of them (eg first time using camera or first time accessing contacts). In practise this doesn't matter for several years.

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Re:Malware in the browser: how you might get hacked by a Chr... by netsharc on Monday July 18, 2016 @05:09PM (#12118076)

BlackBerry allowed fine-grained permissions, and this was 7-8 years ago. But rooted phone, Xposed and Xprivacy brings this feature to Android.

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