What if you would interpolate app permissions with it's respective category. A game usually doesn't need to access gps, it doesn't need access to your phonebook and sms archive.
When there is a huge discrepancy between the app's permissions and the category it belongs to, the market app might give an extra warning about this or block the app from installing. An example warning: 'Warning: This app belonging to category 'games' wants to access your phonebook and less than 1% of apps in category 'games' is known to do this. Fat chance you're being s#*%$d!' Isn't this a viable way to give more functional meaning to the 'granting permission' part of installing apps. Nobody really considers the potential implications when they're installing apps anyway unless you're a devvy. So this statistical interpolation does this for them. Any thoughts? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Security Discussions" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-security-discuss?hl=en.
