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How accurate is the report on used permissions? #10
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Yes. I've checked and found permissions are always different. |
OK, thanks. Thought something along those lines already – having read of some "intrusive ad modules" having few "hard requirements" (e.g. |
in the lastest Pscout website, many APIs uses permission android.permission.DUMP and I don't know why. |
I somehow doubt they really do use that. Rather unlikely. Not that usual, this permission. |
Not sure if this is still relevant, but I found this in the "REAPER: Real-time App Analysis ..." paper:
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For the app CameraFilter, LibRadar found the library Android Support v4 being used and accessing functions requiring the permissions
android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE
,android.permission.WAKE_LOCK
andandroid.permission.VIBRATE
. However, the app itself just declaresCAMERA
,READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
andWRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
in its Manifest – not a single match here.So how should the permissions reported for a library be interpreted?
(Note: if you want to check for yourself, the
.apk
can be downloaded from the page behind the first link)The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: