8% of Android Apps Are Leaking Private Information 159
kai_hiwatari writes "Neil Daswani, who is also the CTO of security firm Dasient, says that they have studied around 10,000 Android apps and have found that 800 of them are leaking private information of the user to an unauthorized server. Neil Daswani is scheduled to present the full findings at the Black Hat Conference in Las Vegas which starts on July 30th. The Dasient researchers also found out that 11 of the apps they have examined are sending unwanted SMS messages."
Margin of error (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Permissions (Score:5, Informative)
I remember someone had a /. sig with a link to a feature request for Android that users could simply choose which permissions they want to allow an app to have at installation. I think this was the link: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=3778 [google.com]. It seems to have a lot of support, but apparently we need more!
I also found this one too: http://androinica.com/2011/05/cyanogenmod-nightlies-secures-android/ [androinica.com]. I didn't read the link in much depth, but apparently it can do just what you describe if you root and install Cyanogenmod