Deciphering Permissions: “Modify/Delete SD Card Contents”

Those of us that are wary about malware and viruses in software always say, “Read the permissions!”, meaning that you should really understand what you are giving the app permission to do when you install it. Google makes you click through an app’s security permission list when installing for a reason – so it’s not their fault if you allow an app to steal your information!

However, even though I’m a programmer myself, I still find myself installing apps with security permissions that I don’t fully understand! It’s not easy to know what all of the various mysterious-sounding permission names mean, so I decided it might be a good idea to dive in and find out what a few of these permissions really allow the app publishers to do and share that info here.

The first one we researched was “Read Phone State and Identity“, and this time, we’ll discover what the “Modify/Delete SD Card Contents” permission allows.

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