I found your wonderful site via a good ol google search after buying an Arnova 10 G2, i'm a photographer and not very 'puter savvy altho' to my suprise i managed to install Bob's 1.4 root thanks to your excellent tut'..thanks again for this.
When i got the tablet all i had in mind for its use was to use it as a little portable picture portfolio to show clients rather than toteing a laptop everywhere but after reading the posts on here i was delighted to discover how powerful, or should i say useful these things could be, now that i've dicovered the world of app's.
Of course i wanted to download everything in sight, then i started to read the reviews to narrow things down a little, the idea of email on the move without an internet dongle sounded fantastic plus a sync'd
calender to boot seemed just what i needed.
Then. when reading the reviews for some apps i see the permissions tab beside it,and as far as i can make out we allow these app's access to stuff we would never dream of allowing on our computers, we have anti virus this..spyware that..firewall the other but i dont hear anyone too fussed about their tablet..or does it just go without saying and you all do in fact have all that stuff installed.
here's an example of what i mean (sorry for the lenght of the copy n paste)
Permissions
This application has access to the following:
- Your accounts manage the accounts list
Allows the app to perform operations like adding and removing accounts, and deleting their password.
use the authentication credentials of an account
Allows the app to request authentication tokens. - Network communication full Internet access
Allows the app to create network sockets. - Your personal information read calendar events plus confidential information
Allows the app to read all calendar events stored on your tablet, including those of friends or coworkers. Malicious apps may extract personal information from these calendars without the owners' knowledge. Allows the app to read all calendar events stored on your phone, including those of friends or coworkers. Malicious apps may extract personal information from these calendars without the owners' knowledge.
add or modify calendar events and send email to guests without owners' knowledge
Allows the app to send event invitations as the calendar owner and add, remove, change events that you can modify on your device, including those of friends or co-workers. Malicious apps may send spam emails that appear to come from calendar owners, modify events without the owners' knowledge, or add fake events. - Phone calls read phone state and identity
Allows the app to access the phone features of the device. An app with this permission can determine the phone number and serial number of this phone, whether a call is active, the number that call is connected to and the like. - Storage modify/delete USB storage contents modify/delete SD card contents
Allows the app to write to the USB storage. Allows the app to write to the SD card. - System tools prevent tablet from sleeping prevent phone from sleeping
Allows the app to prevent the tablet from going to sleep. Allows the app to prevent the phone from going to sleep.
- Your accounts discover known accounts
Allows the app to get the list of accounts known by the tablet. Allows the app to get the list of accounts known by the phone.
view configured accounts
Allows apps to see the usernames (email addresses) of the Google account(s) you have configured. - Hardware controls control vibrator
Allows the app to control the vibrator. - Network communication view network state
Allows the app to view the state of all networks. - System tools automatically start at boot
Allows the app to have itself started as soon as the system has finished booting. This can make it take longer to start the tablet and allow the app to slow down the overall tablet by always running. Allows the app to have itself started as soon as the system has finished booting. This can make it take longer to start the phone and allow the app to slow down the overall phone by always running. - Default Market billing service
Allows the user to purchase items through Market from within this application
enable or disable app components
Allows the app to change whether a component of another app is enabled or not. Malicious apps may use this to disable important tablet capabilities. Care must be used with this permission, as it is possible to get app components into an unusable, inconsistent, or unstable state. Allows the app to change whether a component of another app is enabled or not. Malicious apps may use this to disable important phone capabilities. Care must be used with this permission, as it is possible to get app components into an unusable, inconsistent, or unstable state.
ME AGAIN,
This was from a calender app,..I was going to run my client emails thru' this but after reading that lot i'm definitley not as i would be mortified if my email contact list got compromised.
Sooo, am i being paraniod or what, what do you guys do? or should i not use this device for email etc.
Sorry for posting such a duh newbie question but with these tablets now coming unto the UK market at this price i suspect you will get lots of peeps like me seeking help so maybe this could be the New to Tablets Thread
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