A few posts back, I wrote that I had tried the app Astroplayer and found it useful. However, this is the other app that I have tried that seems to have very strange permissions requested. These include..
Full internet acess ( this is commonly needed eg downloading album art) Read and write to SD card (also commonly needed)
Modify global systems settings*, read system log files*
Read contact data, write contact data
Use authentication credentials of an account, Google app engine, access other Google services**
Again, these* ** are really not the norm and don't make a lot of sense to me, though there may be valid reasons for them ?? I went so far as to get rid of it. There seems to be the potential, that if I updated it , manually or by allowing automatic updates, with those permissions in place it would have the ability to do nasty things if malicious code was added in the updates (even assuming that it has been behaving nicely up until now?)
Am I being too paranoid? If there are valid reasons for ** does anyone know what they might be?
I am trying to be a even more careful after reading a recent article
Google this 'Android police The Mother Of All Android Malware Has Arrived: Stolen Apps'