This time I bring you a video advice in which we are going to deal with a more complex issue than it seems and that is of vital importance. Android security since we are going to talk about the complexes permissions that applications ask us to function properly in our Android terminal.
In this video that I leave attached to this post, I show you in a very graphic way and with practical examples, what could be considered secure applications that only ask us for the necessary permissions for their proper functioning, while on the other hand, I show you with a practical example as well, what would be an application that asks us for abusive permissions and that are not described in the description of its corresponding tab in the Google Play Store. So now you know, if you do not want to be fed to applications that can put some other malware on our Android, I advise you to take a look at the attached video.
How can you see in the video that I have left you at the top of this post, the Oh Music app, an application that is supposed to allow us to listen to streaming music for free and download it too, is an application that suits me like a glove to explain this about abusive permissions or unnecessary permissions that some Android applications want to sneak up on us.
The first thing we should look at when downloading and installing an application on our Android device, even if it is downloaded from the Google Play Store, is in the part of the Google Play file where the permissions that it supposedly needs are detailed. or it will ask us for the application to function as it should.
And I emphasize this about "supposedly" since we must go with a thousand eyes so that they don't try to sell us the motorcycle. In the example of the application in question, Oh Music, in the list of necessary permissions that we are informed in the Play Store, one in question appears, which is to read the identity of the phone and calls, while at the moment of truth the permission What is asked of us is to be able to make phone calls and manage the call log at will.
Be careful with this permission !!
How can you imagine it is not the same to ask for permission to read the call log than to ask for permission to make calls and modify this log, and although neither of the two is necessary for the proper functioning of the application we want to install, I would never give you permission to make calls to an application of this style.
However, the other applications that I show you in the video, Similar applications although to watch movies and series for free in streaming, even being one of the same developer, they do not ask us for any type of permission that we can consider as suspicious or dangerous for our Android and our account.
As I tell you, I advise you to take a look at the video that I have left at the beginning of the post since in it I explain everything in a much more visual, simple and understandable way for everyone.
Here is a direct link to download the applications that I have used in the videoLogically only for applications to watch movies and series for free, which are the applications that in principle and on the day I recorded the video did not request abusive permissions.
