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by liveoneggs 86 days ago
how do you know it didn't lie during the decompilation?
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It doesn't have to lie: unfortunately libraries that are essentially a full application themselves (complete with their own permissions) are not uncommon on mobile.

So it could come across a manifest that includes location permissions and some code that would (if enabled) send location, but it might do a bad job properly tracing