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The original issue is proposing letting the user assign the debug service to a specific interface, one of which would presumably be loopback. This article is about the proposal from a developer that it should only ever be assigned to wlan0, which would break a lot of apps.

Letting applications bypass permissions with this feature is the exact usecase they don't want to lose. If anything, I don't see them being against the original proposal possibly restricting non-loopback access, which would enhance security.



It would break exactly 0 apps because none of the apps should be using this API to access your private data and phone call audio.


So why do Google Play Services, etc. have full privileged access to a phone, including private data and phone call audio, but the user doesn't?

It is tech feudalism - you don't own anything anymore, you just get to live on the digital land of a bunch of ~trillion dollar companies.

At least, that is the goal.

IMO either everyone gets access at the user's discretion or Google has to sandbox their own GMS services as well.


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Why? What other APIs should my apps (or the apps I explicitly want to authorize for this purpose) use to access my private data and my phone call audio?


So what official API call recorder app can use?




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