Re:Any Android app can read your WhatsApp database
by kllrnohj on Tuesday March 11, 2014 @01:28PM
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> the insecure /sdcard partition is the place where most of the storage is in nearly all Android phones.
/sdcard and /data are on the same partition these days, you should just be using the app's private folder if the data is sensitive in the slightest. Which in this case it clearly is, and it's not even large data.
Re:Any Android app can read your WhatsApp database
by eropple on Tuesday March 11, 2014 @08:26PM
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This is true on Nexus phones, but it's a mount point (not "emulated") on Samsung or other SD-card-equipped phones, which I think--not sure--is more of a majority.
Re:Any Android app can read your WhatsApp database
by kllrnohj on Wednesday March 12, 2014 @02:26PM
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No, on Samsung & other SD-card-equipped phones /sdcard points to internal storage and there's some other path, like /sdcard2, that points at the actual SD card.
/sdcard and /data are on the same partition these days, you should just be using the app's private folder if the data is sensitive in the slightest. Which in this case it clearly is, and it's not even large data.