Handing your Android phone to a kid? You might expose him to porn!

Google is seen as the flag bearer of open platforms and this characteristic automatically extends to the Play store, the official app store for android based smart phones.
While Apple is known for strict review of apps before they appear on iTunes store, Google in the spirit of openness is very liberal with allowing apps on the Play store(with very few restrictions). Google's openness is generally good for all, developers can make more apps with more functionality and android users get more apps to use.

However, the openness can become a liability too as I observed today evening when browsing for top new free apps on Google Play store. Here is a screenshot od top free apps:

Now imagine a kid using your phone(they seem to be surprisingly good at it nowadays!) and coming across this while browsing for top apps!
And that's only one part of the danger. These are the permissions requested by the "Indian Bluefilm" app:

 

That's a fairly large assortment of permissions requested by the app without the app having any apparent need for those permissions. Imagine text messages being sent by the app to all your contacts that you have!(possible with the combination of "Your Messages" and "Your Social Information" permissions).

So, if you have a kid around you using your android often, consider making it safe for child.