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Dangerous keyboard app has more than 50 million downloads

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CSOonline.com; By Maria Korolov 		Mail this story
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"The problem was that it asked for just about every permission that an app could ask for," said Bill Anderson, chief product officer at mobile security company OptioLabs. "It was an especially long list. And surprisingly, most people said yes. But the permissions were so excessive that it turned this thing into a potentially marvelous way to hack phones."

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