If you allow an app to send data to the internet then there is a world of things it can do to hide the face it's pulling data from your device, you just have to make a call (or set a setting) as to what you consider acceptable behaviour.
Personally I've always said the "Internet" permission needs to be more fine grained so you approve endpoints the app can connect to (e.g. admob for free apps with ads, or market for license checks), but things have never gone that way. Al. ====== Funky Android Limited is registered in England & Wales with the company number 6741909. The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's subsidiaries. On 4 Dec 2010, at 19:23, Chris Stratton wrote: > On Dec 4, 2:04 pm, Al Sutton <[email protected]> wrote: >> Disagree. They're two different things. >> >> With data stealing the a large amount data goes from the device *to* another >> location. With license verification the data (i.e. license) a small amount >> goes to the server (enough to identify the user name/ID and device ID) and a >> license comes back which can then be verified on-device. >> >> If I saw a "licensing system" sending more than a hundred or so bytes of >> data out to a server I'd be deeply suspicious. > > But 100 bytes is easily enough to steal one phone book entry per > license lookup. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Android Discuss" 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-discuss?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" 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-discuss?hl=en.
