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#7
Originally Posted by Devil View Post
What if there was some evil developer to create a trojan, maybe covered by an application, that slowly uses your Data for spamming or what not.
Or even makes undercover calls? sends out your contacts or text messages to marketing 'baddies'.
As pointed out, if you install open source apps from the maemo.org extras repository, the risk of that happening is insignificantly small.

But of course it should go without saying that installing unverifiable apps from random websites is a bad idea.
 

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