My Backup (Pro) is by far the best backup app for Android phones (at least if you aren't rooted). But I have a love/hate relationship with it, because of it's Internet permission & the fact that it can be remote-controlled (from Rerware's website). Snowden's recent NSA revelations make this all the more worrying.
Given the NSA has hacked Google's secure cloud, it
seems very likely the NSA can also read everything that My Backup stores
in the Rerware's dinky cloud, and perhaps even remote-control My Backup (since it's designed to be remote-controlled by you).
I'd like to
see a version which doesn't ask for internet permissions (and has no
cloud backup options), so I can be sure it's impossible for it to send
my data to the NSA. So far Rerware has denied my requests for such a version. But if enough people ask them, they will surely see there is demand for it, and so provide one I hope.
This would be much easier for Rerware, if Google allowed developers to mark certain permissions (such as internet) as optional. Then I'd be able to disable it's internet permission (and stop worrying).
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