On Tue, 9 Jul 2013, Petros wrote:
From: "Jason White" <jason@jasonjgw.net>
As I understand it from this discussion, the current approach is to ask the user to grant all permissions that might be needed during installation, and then the app author can simply assume throughout the code that security restrictions won't stand in the way of the actual operations.
There are still mystifying permission requests. E.g. the YouTube app:
Camera - take pictures and videos Allows the app to take pictures and videos with the camera. This permission allows the app to use the camera at any time without your confirmation.
I want to watch YouTube - not YouTube watching me!
“The invention of print, however, made it easier to manipulate public opinion, and the film and the radio carried the process further. With the development of television, and the technical advance which made it possible to receive and transmit simultaneously on the same instrument, private life came to an end. Every citizen, or at least every citizen important enough to be worth watching, could be kept for twenty-four hours a day under the eyes of the police and in the sound of official propaganda, with all other channels of communication closed. The possibility of enforcing not only complete obedience to the will of the State, but complete uniformity of opinion on all subjects, now existed for the first time.” -- Tim Connors