I decided to use my screen, which was pretty week, and then it occurred to me that I could enable the flash on my camera while in video mode, which does precisely what a flashlight app would do, without the app. Why does a flashlight need to know where I am? Or have access to my files? Or send a raft of data all over the place? Needless to say, I got rid of my flashlight app.įast forward a week or two, and I needed a flashlight (or a torch, as we say in the UK). Although the presentation focuses on security risks among the most popular Android and iOS apps, I noticed that pretty much all of the Windows Phone flashlight apps have similarly questionable requirements. It’s worth a quick read, especially pages 42 onwards, where the risks of flashlight apps are unveiled. A month or two ago I read an eye opening presentation called Shining the Light on Flashlight and the Security of Thousands of Mobile Apps.
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