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Re:Google collects cell tower info even if location services... by kevin_thibedeau on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @04:09PM (#15751577)
> With a non jailbroken iPhone I have a lot more peace of mind.

Ignorance is bliss.

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Re:Google collects cell tower info even if location services... by xgbi on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @02:23AM (#15754979)
You seem to have something to share, could you elaborate?

From my point of view, the sandboxing and authorization model of iOS is way better than what is available on Android right now.

You could argue that newer versions of Android provide a way to ask for permissions, but suffices to target API level 22 on your app and you're off of it. And fon't get me started on full disk encryption and buggy TPM implementations on Android.

So.. what do you know that we don't?

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Re:Google collects cell tower info even if location services... by codedokode on Thursday November 23, 2017 @10:31AM (#15765596)
As far as I know, the "jailbreak" is performed by using closed-source software that often is heavily obfuscated to prevent analysis. You cannot be sure that it doesn't install a backdoor as a bonus.
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