Re: [Trisquel-users] Better Website Privacy Policies

[onpon4]

Android has some sort of bizarre security model where applications are  
permanently given permission to do a certain subset of things. In pretty much  
any other sensible system, programs that need elevated permissions are given  
them when they're run, after typing an administrator password. Anything else  
just runs with the privileges the user running it has, which of course gives  
it access to all your personal, unencrypted files.

In any case, this really doesn't matter for libre programs; you can check the  
source code of a program if you want to, and malicious features are extremely  
rare. Trying to sandbox everything to protect yourself from malicious  
features is a much weaker defense.