[ WP ] You decide to double check the permissions you 've given to certain apps . It turns out you gave them more permissions than you expected .

I'd always been a fan of simple but addictive games. I could spend hours on flash games or smartphone apps. My latest obsession was an iPhone app where you had to defuse a bomb by cutting wires. The defusals got progressively harder and if you failed the screen would light up in bright flames before flashing a `` Game Over'' message. 
 After playing for a while and getting really good at cutting the right wire at the right time I could easily beat all the levels. I browsed over to the difficulty settings, I always played games on the highest difficulty at least once, even if it was near impossible. 
 The difficulty settings were listed as `` Easy'', `` Normal'', `` Hard'', `` Hardcore'' and `` Ultimate Hardcore Mode''. 
 Obviously, I selected `` Ultimate Hardcore Mode'', which caused a message to pop up on my screen: 
 
 `` You must give this app additional permissions to play this mode.'' 
 
 Without thinking I hit `` OK''. In hindsight, I really should have noticed it was odd that it did n't specify what permissions were needed. 
 A new message in big red letters appeared on the screen; `` Welcome to Ultimate Hardcore Mode, defuse the bomb, but be warned, if you fail you will literally be blown up. Good luck!'' 
 The puzzles were easy at first, cut a red wire here, a blue wire here, but they progressively got harder until I could barely comprehend the spiderweb of virtual wires I saw. 
 Then I made a mistake, a simple mistake, but one that evidently was fatal. A `` Game Over'' message flashed across the screen, then was replaced by nothing but a timer that read 0:30. 
 There was no option to replay. There were no options of any kind for that matter. 
 
 0:28... 0:27... 0:26... 
 
 I tapped all over the screen for a few seconds but nothing changed, so I closed the app but was surprised to see that my background had been changed to the timer. 
 
 0:22... 0:21... 0:20... 
 
 What the hell? I locked the phone and unlocked it, but the timer was still there. 
 
 0:16... 0:15... 0:14... 
 
 Thoroughly confused, I decided to check the permissions. What exactly had I allowed that app to do? 
 After to a few seconds of searching I found what I was looking for. Underneath the usual permissions I saw something unusual `` iBomb settings''. 
 I clicked on it and a message appeared; `` By playing Ultimate Hardcore Mode you agree to let this app access the iBomb ( the iBomb is a plastic explosive charge embedded in your iPhone ) thank you for playing!'' 
 
 Oh shit... 
 
 0:03... 0:02... 0:01...
