No apps permission control for the Priv?
SilentOS from Blackphone seems to have it, quote from their website:
"Fine tune individual app permissions so that the user decides the level of data access each app receives "
Also, BlackPhone seems to have a Balance alike feature by default (on Priv you would need BES).
So, why should people buy a Priv?
The Priv is still following the outdated BES centered business model of RIM, which failed.
There is no true spirit to protect private information, naming this phone "Priv" is misleading.
Note:
If you can't control the access permissions for apps, you are exposed to potential attacks.
Apple and Google are experiencing serious problems here:
First XcodeGhost
XcodeGhost apps haunting iOS App Store more numerous than first reported | Ars Technica
Next even worse:
Researchers find 256 iOS apps that collect users? personal info | Ars Technica
Google has it too:
Scanner identifies thousands of malicious Android apps on Google Play, other markets - SC Magazine
Quote: "In Google Play, the team found that 30,552 of 401,549 apps were malicious. The researchers said that 400 of the malicious apps had been downloaded more than a million times each, and 2,000 had been downloaded more than 50,000 times each."
Or more recent: Malicious Brain Test App Thwarts Google Play Android Security
Appstores (including BB 10 AppWorld) will never be able to determine long term the purpose of required internet permissions for an app.
An app might connect to a legitimate ad server in the first 6-12 months, it will pass all security tests, and then one day a command in the code will let it connect to a control&command server which in turn let the app start do other things.
There is no protection from this scenario in any appstore.
That's why you want to control the permissons, it's the first defense line for damage control in case the app starts to act malicious.
And that's why you should miss the internet access permission that we already had with BBOS.
No apps permission control for the Priv?
Originally Posted by
Superdupont 2_0 I assume every BlackBerry employee has a clause in the contract that prohibits fresh ideas outside the norm.
(BB10 was obviously developed by people who were not bound by such clauses, however, they are no longer working there, right?)
I realise you're joking, but there's many a true word spoken in jest. :)
By all accounts, BB under MikeL was a lesson in how not to lead a high-tech, innovative company. He was autocratic, and seemed to be the only guy in the company who was entitled to "think". It was his way, or the highway from what I've read.
He was definitely an engineering genius. But, I think the developing world brought into being by what Apple were doing, exceeded his imagination. His reaction to the iPhone was apparently disbelief that the device was real!
The recent book (losing the signal) on BB is great reading... sad, in many ways, as it describes how a once great company lost its way, but an interesting read.
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