Timeline for Why can apps access the whole SD card?
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| Mar 2, 2011 at 19:59 | comment | added | Matthew Read | Removable media is designed to be removed and altered by other devices, and thus attempts to manage it are basically useless. Would you expect Windows/Linux/MacOS to prevent individual apps from accessing an SD card plugged into your phone? Would you want to set up which of your 100's of apps can access what parts of the card? It's much easier to just not put important stuff on the SD card if you're going to install random untrusted apps. Rant done :P | |
| Mar 2, 2011 at 19:57 | comment | added | Matthew Read | Well removing files wouldn't necessarily break it, if the management was sufficiently complex. But adding files would be a problem. Allowing just any app to access the new files is a problem, and disallowing any makes the files useless. You could have a specific dropbox folder, which again makes the management more complex. But how do you force someone moving files onto the card from their PC to use the dropbox folder? You can't. You could again make the management more complex, and have it move any new files to the dropbox. But there will always be another way to break it. | |
| Mar 2, 2011 at 19:48 | comment | added | user2774 | I don't see how caging an app's file-system access would be such a mess, and especially not how removing some pictures would break it. | |
| Mar 2, 2011 at 19:39 | history | answered | Matthew Read | CC BY-SA 2.5 |