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_lce0 on Nov 25, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Permissions asked for by Uber Android app

The permission model is broken. I should not give permission at install-time, it should be asked at runtime, at OS-level, and I MUST be allowed to say no anytime .. if I trust the app enough, then I should be able to say "allow the app to do that thing for this hour/day/month/always"

why mobile OS authors haven't learn anything from the web security model yet?

lxm on Nov 26, 2014 [–]

> why mobile OS authors haven't learn anything from the web security model yet?

Which mobile OS authors? The behavior you described is default in iOS.

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