Re: [android-developers] password authentication before application installation

On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 2:31 PM, Mark Murphy <mmurphy@commonsware.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Kristopher Micinski
> <krismicinski@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Right: and this still shouldn't be possible,  you shouldn't be able to
>> 'intercept' intents sent to the package manager and reroute them to
>> give control to you.
>
> Correct.
>
>> I've seen somebody else mention doing this by
>> poking through logs and taking the appropriate actions (and this is
>> certainly possible on rooted devices, all you have to do is look
>> through the appropriate logs and kill off anything you don't want to
>> run).
>
> Also correct. The various apps that purport to password-protect access
> to applications use a variation of this. I would hope that any
> self-respecting ten-year-old can get past them, if they are not part
> of the firmware.
>

Surprisingly I see lots of people ask about this on this list, basically it is:

"Oh, yeah, I understand it's possible to uninstall them in a few
seconds, I don't really care, how do you do it?"

kris

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