The permissions that are granted to the apps have been a problem since the beginning of Android. On the one hand because we accept them usually without testing them, for another because they have always been confusing and have been ill-structured, even though Google takes time putting some order among the chaos. And that put in order they came the permissions of a single-use Android 11 premiered in his first pre-release for developers.
With these permissions a single use could authorize specific apps to access what you needed but a single time. The pop-up authorization permissions passed to include a “Just this once” even though that’s only for the apps that needed access to our geolocation. Now Google does extending these new temporary permits for both the camera and the microphone.
To for the malware that sees us and hears us
One of the problems of granting permanent permits the applications is that we do not know what to do with those permissions in the background. This has led to the birth of many apps that precisely exploit this type of permissions, such as the apps for the monitoring of minors by their parents. But also has fostered the growth of the software spy that data is collected on our even when we do not have the phone in your hands.
With the DP1 of Android 11, Google ensured that any app would take data from our location in the background (as long as we wanted to, of course) and now it’s going to for the apps that try to record what you see in our cameras or, what you will hear for our microphones. Both the permission to access the phone’s camera as the one that granted access to the microphone will include this option of “Just this once”.
Android 11 takes the permissions of a single use of the geolocation of the camera and the microphone
This means that if we choose to grant this temporary permit, the application may normally run during the time that it stays open. But at the time Android the closing in the background, or ourselves we take of the memory, you will need to go back to give permission to continue to operate, which will increase the security level.
The ‘failure’ of this system, however, is the logical, and the same as when it was deployed to the location: it will depend on that us to grant these temporary permits “Just this once” to the apps that we believe could compromise our security. If we choose to allow access to different parts of the phone to always be in place to grant temporary permissions, nothing will have changed. But it is welcome improvement.
Via | Android Central
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Xataka Android
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Samuel Fernandez
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