A last revelation about her use camera on Android, reports that there are applications using the camera of the smartphone, without users knowing it.
This fact can get unpleasant dimensions as one malicious application could take pictures or videos and send them to a remote location.
Η better safety of smartphones are at focus of attention and the revelation that the cameras even operate unknowingly of the user creates great concern.
Ο Szymon Sidor has published recently an article explaining in great detail how rights of use camera on Android, may fake and how the user can be deceived.
At Ideal case, the camera should take pictures only when the shutter is open. Therefore, it is unlikely for the user to ignore that the camera application opens on her own and takes pictures.
The key to this is to find a way to hide the camera shutter somehow. After many attempts, Sidor understood that screen size could change until 1 pixels.
On a modern Android phone, 1 pixel on an 1080p screen it is nothing, and it will be almost impossibility the user can find it. Through this counterfeiting of the screen he made, found that the application he made could take pictures and email them from the device even when the user is looking at the screen without realizing that it is happening.
With regard to licenses there are many ways to make sure that this does not happen on your phone or tablet. The user who has to do is to make sure when installing an app from the Play Store, which one royalties are requested. If the application is not related to the camera, it should not ask permission to use the camera.
Android also has one process file of the system that allows users to know what apps run in the background and who are asking permission to work.
Source: e-pcmag.gr
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