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Re:Signs of Secret Phone Surveillance Across London by m_t on Friday January 15, 2016 @06:55AM (#10908690)
I'm not getting these warning on my Nexus 4 running the default Android build. The only time I see them is when I use my own VPN connection.

Do you think it might get triggered on your phone by the presence of the anti-porn filter that UK mobile provider have? For instance, when trying to access "adult" website (I use quotes as sometimes, even non porno website gets filtered out) you end up on your mobile provider page blocking you from the actual website your looking for.

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Re:Signs of Secret Phone Surveillance Across London by andyjohnson0 on Friday January 15, 2016 @07:22AM (#10908823)
Some details regarding the message here: http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/61750/android-ki...
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Re:Signs of Secret Phone Surveillance Across London by scott77 on Friday January 15, 2016 @07:35AM (#10908891)
This is not the message I've seen. There was nothing about TLS, trusted CA installation, emails, apps, or websites.

I wish I've taken a screenshot of it!

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Re:Signs of Secret Phone Surveillance Across London by andyjohnson0 on Friday January 15, 2016 @08:04AM (#10909028)
The message you quoted appears in the left-hand screenshot [1] showing notifications, not the one on the right containing a dialog box.

[1] http://i.stack.imgur.com/7nCMFm.png

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Re:Signs of Secret Phone Surveillance Across London by Spooky23 on Friday January 15, 2016 @08:28AM (#10909136)
In the US, most mobile traffic is proxied, and filtering/rate limiting is implemented there.

No exotic measures are required to do this.

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