Permissions for Barcode Reader Apps?

Greetings! Just picked up a Motorola Droid and have been anxious to start using all these great apps I keep hearing about. My problem, though, is that they seem to need/have permissions that don't make sense to me. As such, I am hesitant to download them. Two in particular have me baffled.

I looked up "Barcode Scanner" and it claims to need/have permission to read and write to my contact list, as well as see my web browser history. That made me pretty nervous.

So then I found...

Permissions for Barcode Reader Apps?

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