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Re:Droppers Is How Android Malware Keeps Sneaking into the P... by cornholio on Friday July 20, 2018 @07:48AM (#17574202)
> The systems which provided generic data worked very well a lot of the time, but also some of the time would just subtly break things in a way which was not obvious for a non-technical user.

Is this available via a non-root API? There are those blackmailing applications that refuse to do their core functionality when a certain unrelated permission is denied (the hell you need my location, music streaming app!). If Android fed them generic data, they would quickly learn to detect it - but not if data is controlled by other Apps or the user himself.

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Re:Droppers Is How Android Malware Keeps Sneaking into the P... by annabellish on Friday July 20, 2018 @11:10AM (#17575592)
I don't believe so, integrating such a thing is a pretty big change, though I believe there are (or at least were, last I checked) systems which didn't require a full custom OS to work with.
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