Re: Android Marshmallow permissions model

> Anyway, each category requires a different set of authorities. You pick the
> category, the OS grants that set of authorities to the app; most categories
> need such limited authority they are harmless. If the app tells the OS it
> needs more authorities than the standard package, either the OS rejects the
> installation or gives the app a pseudo-authority stub that looks like
> authority but is not. Again looking at android, I am leaning  toward
> silently granting the app harmless authority stubs. Over half of the apps I
> look at for installing on my phone want my gps locations, less than 5
> percent actually need it to serve my needs, giving the app a fake gps
> locator would serve me well.

That is terrific. I wish the Blackphone would implement that.