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#AnySoftKeyboard, installed from #FDroid, asks for access to Contacts. Was it compromised? (EDIT: Unlikely) (mastodon.nzoss.nz)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz to c/fdroid@lemmy.ml

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#AnySoftKeyboard, installed from #FDroid, asks for access to Contacts. Was it compromised? (EDIT: Unlikely)

I don't remember it asking me for Contacts before (but @lnxw37a2 does). [EDIT: I was] worried it may have been subject to a supply chain attack, and to be on the safe side, I uninstalled it.

It seems to be a mostly unmaintained app that I never use, but hadn't uninstalled. This is the first new version since 2025/07/25, and before that, 2022/01/14 (the first version shipped by @fdroid).

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[–] strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

@artyom
> Cool, I just installed a new version of CoMaps!

This strikes me as a chatbot style reply, chatty and positive, but completely out of context. Your profile doesn't flag you as a bot, which is the convention in the fediverse.

If you are a bot, your operator needs to state that clearly in your profile, or will fall foul of @rimu. Who takes a dim view of such things, and rightly so.

If you are a human, context is king! Love your enthusiasm, but might have been better as its own post ; )

[–] strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

BTW @rimu, my apologies again for unloading on you with both barrels last night. I stand by my objection to the way Stanton was being dogpiled, but in hindsight I was just as merciless to you as I saw people being to him. Which was not only hypocritical, but *not* good de-escalation on my part, quite the opposite.

I've got some intense stuff going on of late, and struggling with sleep dep. But that's my problem and my responsibility, not yours, or anyone else's. I hope you can accept my apology

[–] rimu@piefed.social 2 points 2 weeks ago

It's cool man, don't worry about it.