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Re:Android wallpaper images can threaten privacy by gruez on Thursday October 07, 2021 @04:15PM (#28791520)
>Many apps I use daily require internal storage permissions and a bunch of them drop random dotfiles with magical IDs in there. Xiaomi even dumps a world readable unique device ID on the emulated SD card.

They're fixing this with soon with scoped storage api.

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Re:Android wallpaper images can threaten privacy by searchableguy on Thursday October 07, 2021 @08:42PM (#28794175)
At this point, I am starting to feel permission fatigue.
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Re:Android wallpaper images can threaten privacy by a_large_rat01 on Thursday October 07, 2021 @07:46PM (#28793668)
A decade later and they're implementing folder permissions...?
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Re:Android wallpaper images can threaten privacy by onkoe on Friday October 08, 2021 @02:02AM (#28796177)
Better late than never! But.. yikes!
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