Daniel Micay on Twitter: "@spudowiar The built-in file manager would also still allow access, including moving/copying it around. On the other hand, trying to lock down all communication between apps with user consent required for *each* usage is a whole different story. Lots of basic functionality would be painful." / Twitter

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Daniel Micay

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Dec 27, 2018

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It's problematic because unlike the dangerous permissions, bypasses weren't treated as bugs. For example, it's possible for apps to make HTTP GET requests by opening a URL in a browser via standard intents. Those intents would all need to require INTERNET or consent for each use.

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I don't think people would tolerate that for very basic use cases like opening links in a browser. Apps with internet access would be able to bypass this anyway since they can communicate with each other via the network. It's difficult to force apps to protect themselves.

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Isolating shared storage for each app doesn't add that much inconvenience, since there's no prompt for the common case of apps simply loading/saving data in their own directory and the standard file chooser interface still works for saving/loading arbitrary data like before.

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The built-in file manager would also still allow access, including moving/copying it around. On the other hand, trying to lock down all communication between apps with user consent required for *each* usage is a whole different story. Lots of basic functionality would be painful.

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Unless you make a lot of special cases, it's also going to encourage doing things in less private / secure ways in many cases. I don't think you'd want opening a link in a browser or opening the camera app to take a picture to be less convenient than bundling the functionality.

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