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by edude03 3395 days ago
This is a great idea actually. Actually, isn't google already doing this via SELinux? You give the app a manifest of calls it's allowed to make, and if the call isn't in the manifest the call gets rejected?
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SELinux is not that strong. It works on kernel syscall boundaries and some parameters thereof, and those aren't particularly fine grained. Service access is governed by a separate Google API, for example.

Moreover, any random app cannot enhance SELinux policy of the system.