On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 2:58 PM, Jonas Sicking <[email protected]> wrote:
> I also believe Adrienne had done some analysis of Apps in the Android > app store which use SMS and found that a scarily large percentage used > it for non-great purposes. > That's not exactly what our data shows; it's not that most apps that request SMS are malware, but rather that most apps that are malware request SMS. However, I would agree that the value added by SMS is low but the risk is high. Here's the data I've got: - 2.934% of Android apps request the SEND_SMS permission. - By our estimation (manual review of apps), only 0.8% of all apps need the permission; the remainder could use a built-in SMS widget like in iOS without any loss of functionality. - 73% of malware requests this permission. I believe this % has increased since I measured it last year. - The privilege ranks in the top 5 most concerning to users (because of its ability to spend their money. _______________________________________________ dev-webapps mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-webapps
