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Re:Mission Improbable: Hardening Android for Security and Pr... by viraptor on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @09:14PM (#12973634)
Android is what you configure it to be. Sure, there are some switches to flip if you want to be google-free. But you can replace pretty much every privacy-impacting function on the phone.
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Re:Mission Improbable: Hardening Android for Security and Pr... by cesnja on Thursday November 17, 2016 @01:06AM (#12974794)
When it's pwned at firmware [1] and/or hardware level, all those actions are in vain.

[1] http://www.kryptowire.com/adups_security_analysis.html

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Re:Mission Improbable: Hardening Android for Security and Pr... by deep_attention on Thursday November 17, 2016 @04:41AM (#12975929)
I find this project interesting: https://neo900.org/ Everything will be open-source, apart from the modem. But they do disconnect the modem from any direct input like audio. Have a look at this presentation: https://neo900.org/stuff/cccamp15/ccc2015talk/talk.pdf
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Re:Mission Improbable: Hardening Android for Security and Pr... by pawadu on Thursday November 17, 2016 @04:37AM (#12975905)
Android is also what you pay for. If you buy a $99 phone from China, don't be surprised if there is Chinese government spy code in the firmware.

For the record, companies like Apple and Xiaomi provide methods to verify the integrity of your phones software if you bought it in China. But then we are not talking about $99 phones anymore.

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