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Apps that change permissions after installing

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britteva

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I think there is already a thread about this, but I was not able to find it so I hope you excuse me for making a new one. (If anyone with the neccessary permissions know where the other thread is - feel free to merge this one in to the other one.)

After reading about someone who discovered that he checked the permissions tha app asked for, installed it, then rechecked the permissions and found out that they had changed - I decided to check this myself. Sure enough - several apps had permissions that I had not agreed to when installing them. Could I have missed updates that had given extra permissions? I din't think so, so I unistalled, went to Android market, checked permissions and installed. Immediately afterwards I checked and sure enough - the permissions weren't the same.

I don't have any pictures right now, but I can give examples of apps this happened with.

Princess puzzle Game by Kids Puzzle - only asks for internet access, when checking after installing it also has permission so modify or delete SD card contents and read phone status and identity.

Bubble Buster, version 3.2 - same as above.

NRK Nyheter by Unixcrab Apps - same as above
 
britteva said:
I think there is already a thread about this, but I was not able to find it so I hope you excuse me for making a new one. (If anyone with the neccessary permissions know where the other thread is - feel free to merge this one in to the other one.)

After reading about someone who discovered that he checked the permissions tha app asked for, installed it, then rechecked the permissions and found out that they had changed - I decided to check this myself. Sure enough - several apps had permissions that I had not agreed to when installing them. Could I have missed updates that had given extra permissions? I din't think so, so I unistalled, went to Android market, checked permissions and installed. Immediately afterwards I checked and sure enough - the permissions weren't the same.

I don't have any pictures right now, but I can give examples of apps this happened with.

Princess puzzle Game by Kids Puzzle - only asks for internet access, when checking after installing it also has permission so modify or delete SD card contents and read phone status and identity.

Bubble Buster, version 3.2 - same as above.

NRK Nyheter by Unixcrab Apps - same as above
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If this is true, then it is not good. If this can actually work, an app can ask for no permissions upon installing and then switch to have all permission enabled after installed, sounds like a possible trojan app to me. Google needs to know about this a.s.a.p.
 
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