Re: emacs android port has 124 permissions? privacy implications?

["W. Greenhouse" via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>]

జిందం వాఐి <jindam.vani@disroot.org> writes:

> * emacs android port was announced! [ 1 ]
> * it will be available in 30 [2]
> * release covered on lwn also [3]
> * available in f-droid repo [4]
> * just discovered thread which was
> created on independence day. ironic. [5]
> * there are few reasons for writing here
> * dont have inner workings of android apps
> * insufficient knowledge about android os
> * without having valid reason or concern,
> cannot post on emacs-devel
> * just hoping for some discussion or
> insight related to impact of permissions
> on privacy.
>
> [1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2022-12/msg01358.html
> [2] https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/etc/NEWS.30#n36
> [3] https://lwn.net/Articles/959931/
> [4] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.gnu.emacs/
> [5] https://forum.f-droid.org/t/emacs-excessive-permissions/27019

If you don't trust free software to do what you expect, don't install
it.

Permissions are needed to interact with the host (Android) system.

"Excessive" is a value judgment based on what you expect the software to
be able to do.