On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 3:11 AM, Kostya Vasilyev <kmans...@gmail.com> wrote:
> There is nothing preventing two separate .apks, one with "read contacts" and
> the other with "internet" permissions to do exactly the same as one
> malicious app, steal contact info. It might not be obvious to the user at
> all that the two apps are working together to do something bad.

Agreed. Developers have incentive to make their apps appear less
scary. Either we give them the tools to do that without compromising
security or they will find ways that make security worse (e.g., APKs
that intentionally "leak" secured data/services).

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