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Commit cccdd721 authored by Robert Greenwalt's avatar Robert Greenwalt
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Make WRITE_APN_SETTINGS a system-only permission. 

Protects us from apps getting packet snooping ability
(ie, routing all your traffic through their server by
modifing your APN settings).  We may eventually revert this
if/when we have time to provide a proper API and scary UI
like VPN has.

bug:5242750
Change-Id: I71d73807ca5268c6aacc2156839b4d11427048c4
parent ec8917dc

core/res/AndroidManifest.xml

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@@ -920,7 +920,7 @@ 
    <!-- Allows applications to write the apn settings -->

    <!-- Allows applications to write the apn settings -->

    <permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_APN_SETTINGS"

    <permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_APN_SETTINGS"

                android:permissionGroup="android.permission-group.SYSTEM_TOOLS"

                android:permissionGroup="android.permission-group.SYSTEM_TOOLS"

                android:protectionLevel="dangerous"

                android:protectionLevel="signatureOrSystem"

                android:description="@string/permdesc_writeApnSettings"

                android:description="@string/permdesc_writeApnSettings"

                android:label="@string/permlab_writeApnSettings" />

                android:label="@string/permlab_writeApnSettings" />