commit 4c7f988dbded2fc02272dcd4e5495793e059e10b
author Jack Palevich <jackpal@google.com> Wed Jun 20 18:29:33 2012 +0800
committer Jack Palevich <jackpal@google.com> Wed Jun 20 18:29:33 2012 +0800
tree 6182be79dad4fee6e0ca684a406c63ec600a437a
parent 1b423b5f89260d0807c19a59ef60a9f2b1e13a16

Remove READ_LOGS permission by popular demand.

This permission was added to enable developers to use Android Terminal
Emulator to read their phone's log. Reading a log is handy when
you're trying to debug a problem while not connected to a development
computer.

Unfortunately some people were uncomfortable with the idea of granting
Android Terminal Emulator permission to read their phone's log. They
worried that the log might contain sensitive information, and that
Android Terminal Emulator might access this sensitive information and
do something bad with it.

Of course, Android Terminal Emulator does no such thing. It contains no
code to access the log at all, it just requests the read-log permission
in order to allow the pre-existing logcat command to work.

Never-the-less, I am removing the feature, because it takes too much of
my time to answer emails from worried users.

Developers who still want to use this feature will have to build their own
version of ATE without this change.