Re:Free Your Android
by akavel on Thursday May 08, 2014 @09:43AM
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Not sure if you really did this by accident, or if you're playing dumb, but the article does sound like claiming it'll make a phone NSA-safe. Yeah, now that you said so, I notice that it doesn't explicitly claim so, but first paragraphs are sure sprinkled with the name; if you really cared about the reader's safety, it would be responsible then to explicitly state that this advice does not protect against NSA.
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So I have to explicitly state what this article is not about. Interesting approach...
Well, if you already mention the NSA to make discussion "more relevant" to recent events (which were about... NSA surveillance), then it would be also good to mention that the advice from your article are not meant to secure you from the NSA :).
It's good for people to know exactly how much security they get by following particular advice :).
Just like Private Browsing Modes in Chrome/Firefox tell you that they won't protect from agents.
I mention NSA to point out that you should at least avoid Companies that cooperate with them. Nothing more, nothing less.