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diff --git a/content/sus-perm/_index.md b/content/sus-perm/_index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..cd0ec58 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/sus-perm/_index.md @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +--- +title: Suspicious permissions +lang: en +translationKey: sus-perm +--- + +# Apps and websites that ask for suspicious permissions + +Ever seen a calculator asking for personal data? That's the kind of content +you'll find in this section. + +[Click here](mailto:huyngo+sus-perm@disroot.org) to submit a one. diff --git a/content/sus-perm/calculator.jpg b/content/sus-perm/calculator.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..65bea35 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/sus-perm/calculator.jpg Binary files differdiff --git a/content/sus-perm/calculator.md b/content/sus-perm/calculator.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2897524 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/sus-perm/calculator.md @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +title: "What does this Calculator calculate?" +date: 2021-05-25T17:18:25+07:00 +categories: [ app ] +tags: [ xiaomi, "personal information" ] +--- + +Did you know that calculator needs to colllect *necessary* personal information +to provide you with basic services? + +Well for Xiaomi apps that is the case. + + diff --git a/content/sus-perm/insurance.md b/content/sus-perm/insurance.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6a45983 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/sus-perm/insurance.md @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +--- +title: "$PROPRIETARY_SOFTWARE would like to change your system setting" +date: 2021-05-25T17:33:23+07:00 +categories: [ app ] +tags: [ system, setting ] +--- + +So I was asked to install an app to handle some social security and insurance +information (no don't ask me I don't even know what that's supposed to mean, or +what it's supposed to do). The app asks for permissions to change system +setting when I click on something that looks like notification button. I +suspect they intended to ask for push notification permission, but like, wow, +so security, such suspicious. On top of that, it's proprietary with explicit +terms about not modifying or reverse-engineering it. + +I wish FSFE's [Public Money, Public Code](https://publiccode.eu/) movement were +a global movement and not just for Europe. diff --git a/content/sus-perm/oxfordreference.md b/content/sus-perm/oxfordreference.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7206ffc --- /dev/null +++ b/content/sus-perm/oxfordreference.md @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +--- +title: "Oxford wants to know your location!" +date: 2021-05-25T17:24:56+07:00 +categories: [ website ] +tags: [ oxford, location ] +--- + +Knowing your location must be so helpful in looking up words. Very privacy, so +discrimination. + + diff --git a/content/sus-perm/oxfordreference.png b/content/sus-perm/oxfordreference.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8d00f7e --- /dev/null +++ b/content/sus-perm/oxfordreference.png Binary files differ |
