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King Root Can Steal Your Sensitive Details Like Banks, Cc & Wallet Info by Joel3(m): 10:03pm On Sep 20, 2016
haven study king root for I while would say
though it gives you the root access it has its
own service running in background which
maybe pushing your data to their servers.
If its just meant to root your device why does
it require so many unncessary permission in
its manifest.

Here you can have a look from its decompiled
sources.

<uses-permission
android:name="android.per
mission.CHANGE_WIFI_STATE"/>
<uses-permission
android:name="android.per
mission.ACCESS_WIFI_STATE"/>
<uses-permission
android:name="android.per
mission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE"/>
<uses-permission
android:name="android.per
mission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE"/>
<uses-permission
android:name="android.per
mission.WAKE_LOCK"/>
<uses-permission
android:name="android.per
mission.READ_OWNER_DATA"/>
<uses-permission
android:name="android.per
mission.READ_LOGS"/>
<uses-permission
android:name="android.per
mission.INTERNET"/>
<uses-permission
android:name="android.per
mission.RESTART_PACKAGES"/>
<uses-permission
android:name="android.per
mission.READ_PHONE_STATE"/>
<uses-permission
android:name="android.per
mission.CAMERA"/>
<uses-permission
android:name="android.per
mission.ACCESS_MTK_MMHW"/>
<uses-permission
android:name="android.per
mission.ACCESS_CACHE_FILESYSTEM"/>
<uses-permission
android:name="android.per
mission.GET_TASKS"/>
<uses-permission
android:name="android.per
mission.ACCESS_MOCK_LOCATION"/>
<uses-feature android:name="android.har
dware.wifi"/>
<uses-permission
android:name="android.per
mission.RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED"/>
<uses-permission
android:name="android.per
mission.WRITE_OWNER_DATA"/>
<uses-permission
android:name="com.kingroo
t.kinguser.permission.activityCalled"/>

As you see it needs internet permission to
root the device , but you never know how its
been used. The question arises why does it
need to read the phone state i.e Contacts,
Camera permission i.e Photos indirectly ,
location access, reading owner Information,
read our phone logs etc. All this is sensitive
information & I wouldn't compromise my
private data to be shared. There is a lot
more which I came across but to be crisp its
not safe at all!!

Beware guys of such applications in market.
They can misuse your data in many ways.

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