Thread: Holy cow, we have been dirty for 9 years
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2016-10-22 , 18:09
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Originally Posted by meego_leenooks1 View Post
That's just the first example I found in Google. I've seen news about dozens or hundreds of innocent-looking apps in Play Market / App Store with hidden ad/spy/mal-ware inside. Surely you have to explicitly allow them to run (install them yourself) but how do you know which app is clean and legitimate and which is not?
Indeed, as long as those apps are proprietary / closed source you just don't know. A ton of Google Play programs ask for permissions that don't make sense. Why should a game need access to your contacts etc..
On an Android phone I assume with cyanogenmod (no gapps) and only install apps from the f-droid repo you will prevent installing any malicious software and are relatively safe.
 

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