Twitter wants to read my SMS and know about who and when calls me, to whom and when I call
When I tried to update the official Twitter application for Android, I was confronted with the unpleasant growth of his desires:
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The desire to be able to read and delete my SMS without my knowledge is enough reason not to put such an update on a mobile phone. But he, at least, hassome precedents (the day before, at Habrahabr, one could read that Facebook, Viber, Hangouts, Telegram were allowed to read SMS and intercept them), there is also some explanation for lazy people and not far away: “we just want to send you an activation code for SMS and save you from having to manually copy or type it”.
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But to demand the right of access to the status of the phone - this is generally prohibitively impudent. It's the same opportunity to know when they call me (or when I call others), and who exactly is calling me (and to whom I call). And it is much harder to justify this right, and even so to substantiate, so that a man in the street would believe.
What does this mean? - hope that "People shavaet" and without explanation?
It creates a grim impression that the revelations made by Snowden had partly the opposite effect: the corporations decided that the people completely and completely accepted the fact that every step of every citizen could be examined by a microscope under the microscope - now, not only the state, but also another force ( for example, a corporation) can twitch humans indiscriminately, demanding complete openness and nudity as a prerequisite for access to the blogosphere, chats, microblogs, and so on. And monetize this openness, merging the data of God knows who.
It creates a grim impression that the very existence of an opportunity for an application to request rights such as access to SMS or to numbers of interlocutors is a fatal flaw in the Android system: after all, if an application can ask for such rights and the user cannot refuse this request without refusing and from the update, then the rights will be asked without fail, asking greedily and persistently.
How to deal with this is not very clear.
On the one hand, if the site has an open API, then, probably, they will write informal applications for accessing the site, requiring for themselves a more modest range of rights on a mobile phone.
On the other hand, I after all put the official Twitter application on Android precisely because I heard the news last year about Twitter’s intention to seriously limit the ability of unofficial applications to use its API, the frequency of calls to the API ("one hundred thousandth barrier "and so on) .
Is it a dead end?
The desire to be able to read and delete my SMS without my knowledge is enough reason not to put such an update on a mobile phone. But he, at least, has
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But to demand the right of access to the status of the phone - this is generally prohibitively impudent. It's the same opportunity to know when they call me (or when I call others), and who exactly is calling me (and to whom I call). And it is much harder to justify this right, and even so to substantiate, so that a man in the street would believe.
What does this mean? - hope that "People shavaet" and without explanation?
It creates a grim impression that the revelations made by Snowden had partly the opposite effect: the corporations decided that the people completely and completely accepted the fact that every step of every citizen could be examined by a microscope under the microscope - now, not only the state, but also another force ( for example, a corporation) can twitch humans indiscriminately, demanding complete openness and nudity as a prerequisite for access to the blogosphere, chats, microblogs, and so on. And monetize this openness, merging the data of God knows who.
It creates a grim impression that the very existence of an opportunity for an application to request rights such as access to SMS or to numbers of interlocutors is a fatal flaw in the Android system: after all, if an application can ask for such rights and the user cannot refuse this request without refusing and from the update, then the rights will be asked without fail, asking greedily and persistently.
How to deal with this is not very clear.
On the one hand, if the site has an open API, then, probably, they will write informal applications for accessing the site, requiring for themselves a more modest range of rights on a mobile phone.
On the other hand, I after all put the official Twitter application on Android precisely because I heard the news last year about Twitter’s intention to seriously limit the ability of unofficial applications to use its API, the frequency of calls to the API ("one hundred thousandth barrier "
Is it a dead end?
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/210966/
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