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authorKartik K. Agaram <vc@akkartik.com>2021-12-25 14:36:56 -0800
committerKartik K. Agaram <vc@akkartik.com>2021-12-25 14:36:56 -0800
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sandbox: new scenario
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       allows an app to do anything. Educate people to separate apps that read
       sensitive data from apps that access remote servers.
     - (2) solution: map phases within an app to distinct permission sets
+  * app A legitimately needs to read sensitive data. It saves a copy to file
+    X. app B seems to legitimately needs to access the network, but also
+    asks to read file X. If the owner forgets who wrote file X and what it
+    contains, sensitive data could be exfiltrated.
   * (3) app wants access to system() or exec() or popen()
 
 Difficulty levels