Google have declared Droidscript is malware

Re:Google have declared Droidscript is malware by twobitshifter on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @11:21AM (#26957142)

I’d be hesitant to jump on another platform unless it has a way of locking down app permissions similar to iOS. I think it’s been shown that the app review process is a farce, but the permissions system like the new app tracking feature is great for privacy and security.

If this droid script equivalent were going to start reading my emails watching me through the camera, reading my clipboard, or tracking my real world location, I’d definitely want something that alerted me to that before it happened.

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Re:Google have declared Droidscript is malware by joshuaissac on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @04:51PM (#26961350)

> If this droid script equivalent were going to start reading my emails watching me through the camera, reading my clipboard, or tracking my real world location, I’d definitely want something that alerted me to that before it happened.

Android has supported permissions since at least Froyo (2010), and these permission requests were made on-demand/runtime rather than pre-install with Marshmallow (2015). So Droidscript would be unable to do any of those things (except reading the clipboard) until you explicitly granted those permissions to the app.

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Re:Google have declared Droidscript is malware by swiley on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @01:10PM (#26958695)

There is a way to do that: don't run untrusted code outside the browser.

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