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Facebook can now read your texts

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Post by cstrat »

giantrobothead wrote: post #212
exodust wrote: post #122

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Good point. Wow, there really is no hope for private communication.

Other than hand-delivered letters and face-to-face conversation in a secluded space, but then again, how can you trust the person you're communicating with to keep those communiques private? Argh...paranoia...all consuming!

that is a little different but point taken.

if facebook wanted to be nefarious with these newly granted permissions, they have an extremely large pool of data to mine.

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Post by kelnos »

JohnTHaller wrote: post #39

Don't forget that Google Hangouts now has access to all your texts, too, now.

... which is written by Google. The same people who wrote the stock messaging app... and phone's OS. If they want your texts, getting them through the Hangouts app is hardly necessary.

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Post by auxbuss »

desas wrote: post #149
auxbuss wrote: post #87

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I'm not sure why you consider that a red herring. You can disable Hangouts and Android will fall back to the standard Messaging app.

The standard messaging app isn't installed by default on modern android phones (nexus 5). You can of course install 3rd party messaging apps.

Well, admittedly my phone isn't bleeding-edge, being a nexus 4, but it runs the latest version of Android and removal of Hangouts does make Messaging the SMS app.

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Post by exodust »

hackmiester wrote: post #196
exodust wrote: post #120

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No there isn't.

What a constructive comment!

Correcting factual errors is constructive. The post implied that all you need is a Samsung Phone, then you have "Permissions Manager". No mention of an app. But then, when you look at the reviews for the app that is linked above, it doesn't give one a lot of confidence in managing permissions on Android.

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Post by sitkack »

mgulaid wrote: post #29

http://imgur.com/W09C9uO Twitter is doing the same. It requests access to contacts list, SMS, phone call, phone Identity. I noticed the same and stopped updating. Andiord should enable users to control apps.

It is a ridiculous and I would say blatant insult to users and their security to not firewall off apps. I really, really don't understand it.
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