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Sandboxing insufficiently addresses this problem as permissions can be granted by the user for legitimate purposes and then once granted they could be abused to violate user privacy.


Yes, but this can already happen for an app in the App Store.


The key difference of course is the App Store can take direct action against that app in such a scenario.


I guess I'm struggling to see how there's any difference here, can you give an example?


I'm quite not sure what you're asking for an example of?




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