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Re:Facebook scraped call, text message data for years from A... by nickpsecurity on Sunday March 25, 2018 @12:25AM (#16670757)
That's what PowerBoxes are designed to do in the capability-based, security model. In theory, it can happen if Android had different model.

http://www.plash.beasts.org/powerbox.html

Note: I'm using this link just to explain the concept rather than endorse anything on the site. It was top of Google results.

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Re:Facebook scraped call, text message data for years from A... by ocdtrekkie on Sunday March 25, 2018 @12:42AM (#16670808)
For what it's worth, Fuchsia, the new OS Google is working on, is capability-based.
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