restricting the SensorManager

[XS666]

Originally Posted by Tungstwenty

@M66B,
You're not restricting the SensorManager yet, right?

You might want to have a look at this interesting article

http://bit.ly/1bg5HOA

[0x0878]

Nice find.

[Cerberus-tm]

Ah, very interesting. I obviously support this, although I have no idea how difficult it would be to implement this. What sensors should be restrictable? All? Frankly I was very surprised that the browser in Android lets websites use the sensors without any use action!

[Cerberus-tm]

"Can Mobile Accelerometers Spy on Your Desktop Keystrokes? — The answer to the question above, as security researcher Philip Marquardt demonstrated, is “yes.” However, it’s not all that likely in practice, and there are several simple ways to protect yourself."
— http://www.xda-developers.com/android/can-mobile-accelerometers-spy-on-your-desktop-keystrokes/

So allowing us to block programs from reading the various sensors would be a great addition to Xprivacy, to make it really future proof.

[M66B]

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/hardware/SensorManager.html

[Cerberus-tm]

Yay! Welcome back.

[M66B]

Test version: http://d-h.st/kil