 siljalineI'm lovin' that double widePremium
join:2002-10-12
Montreal, QC
kudos:17
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Re: There are some that plug and pray, others learn how to lock their phones Dude111  just like anything else. I would be the latter  |
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OZOPremium
join:2003-01-17
kudos:2 | reply to siljaline
Re: Smartphone apps track users even when shut down The whole permission system in Android is a big joke and I think that designers of Android OS are just laughing in our face, displaying those permissions, but allowing users to do absolutely nothing about them. User can't remove or block anything. Suggestion to ask application developers to remove some or all unnecessary permissions is naive and will achieve nothing IMHO. They do it for a reason, then know and will keep it that way... Permission management should be done by the developers of the OS, not by application developers. And control over permissions should be offered to users. But it looks like Android OS designers want to keep laughing at people, who are left with black/white choice - accept it or go away with nothing. Very funny (for them) ... but, at the same time, rather extremely sad (for us, users) 
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join:2005-12-28
Houston, TX
kudos:4 | reply to BlitzenZeus
said by BlitzenZeus:....many of these phones tend not to get the updated firmware leaving them vulnerable to known exploits. It is not only the phone firmware that might be exploited. The FBI computers also leak data.
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Hackers associated with Anonymous claim to have swiped more than 12 million Apple iPhone and iPad device identifiers from an FBI computer.
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Someone using the banner of AntiSec — a 14-month-old joint operation of Anonymous and LulzSec — posted a document to Pastebin on Monday that contained links to around a million Apple unique device identifiers (UDIDs). The anonymous poster said the release was intended to highlight the FBI's alleged tracking of Apple customers.
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AntiSec said the hack, which apparently exploited a Java vulnerability, yielded a CSV file containing "a list of 12,367,232 Apple iOS devices including Unique Device Identifiers (UDID), user names, name of device, type of device, Apple Push Notification Service [APNS] tokens, zipcodes, cellphone numbers, addresses, etc".
»www.zdnet.com/fbi-hack-yielded-1···0003668/
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join:2003-02-06
Onion, NJ
kudos:1 | reply to antdude
You could always write and market a firewall. Or just install a CM modded rom.
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Denton, TX | Actually I believe it has iptables. Not sure if it was built in or an add-on but I did see mention of it. It is Linux after all...
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siljalineI'm lovin' that double widePremium
join:2002-10-12
Montreal, QC
kudos:17 Reviews:
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Did you read my reply to antdude ? OZO |
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| Oh well, 99.99% of todays people don't even know that their TV is sending what-they-have-been-looking-at-what-time behind their backs too. Who cares, right ? |
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OZOPremium
join:2003-01-17
kudos:2 | reply to Drunkula
said by Drunkula:Actually I believe it has iptables. Not sure if it was built in or an add-on but I did see mention of it. It is Linux after all...
Not all Android builds include iptables. For example, HTC Aria / Android 2.1 doesn't. When you try to run DroidWall (third party firewall app), it returns error:
"Error applying iptables rules.
Exit code 1.
iptables v1.4.10
iptables: No chain/target/
match by that name.
Unless you root the phone and install special build ROM with kernel, built with support for the "owner" netfilter kernel module, you will not be able to use iptables firewall.
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siljalineI'm lovin' that double widePremium
join:2002-10-12
Montreal, QC
kudos:17 Reviews:
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It would be like plugging a Virgin PC to the Net totally exposed to Android malware |
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 The world is crazy. No privacy! The world is terrible. No privacy! |
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join:2010-04-11
Ephrata, PA
kudos:4
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| said by Floriana: The world is crazy. No privacy! The world is terrible. No privacy!
HEHE. They can track what toilet paper I use for all I care. |
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AVDRespice, Adspice, ProspicePremium
join:2003-02-06
Onion, NJ
kudos:1 | after I use it. |
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said by SafireDonkey:Oh well, 99.99% of todays people don't even know that their TV is sending what-they-have-been-looking-at-what-time behind their backs too. Who cares, right ?
I know a LOT about cable and the cable boxes. Yes, many broadcasters and cable TV program providers would LOVE to know what people are watching, but even if the provision was there for it, how could it know? It cannot!
I leave my cable boxes on all the time. That would mean that NBC might ASSUME I watched NBC all night, and all the time I am at work. It just is useless data. |
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| said by BubbaKlinton :said by SafireDonkey:Oh well, 99.99% of todays people don't even know that their TV is sending what-they-have-been-looking-at-what-time behind their backs too. Who cares, right ?
I know a LOT about cable and the cable boxes. Yes, many broadcasters and cable TV program providers would LOVE to know what people are watching, but even if the provision was there for it, how could it know? It cannot! I leave my cable boxes on all the time. That would mean that NBC might ASSUME I watched NBC all night, and all the time I am at work. It just is useless data. Not really useless because we know when your TV is idle cause your on the same dull program for hours but when your home you have been flipping from one station to the next. You have to remember all device like a computer has some form of tracking like cookies or apps that spy on you.
When you use the dvr to record your favorite shows they receive a log of what you been watching. Proprietary software always spies because you do have have control over the operating system. |
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 antdudeA Ninja AntPremium,VIP
join:2001-03-25
United State
kudos:4
·RoadRunner Cable
| said by CableGuy20 :said by BubbaKlinton :said by SafireDonkey:Oh well, 99.99% of todays people don't even know that their TV is sending what-they-have-been-looking-at-what-time behind their backs too. Who cares, right ?
I know a LOT about cable and the cable boxes. Yes, many broadcasters and cable TV program providers would LOVE to know what people are watching, but even if the provision was there for it, how could it know? It cannot! I leave my cable boxes on all the time. That would mean that NBC might ASSUME I watched NBC all night, and all the time I am at work. It just is useless data. Not really useless because we know when your TV is idle cause your on the same dull program for hours but when your home you have been flipping from one station to the next. You have to remember all device like a computer has some form of tracking like cookies or apps that spy on you. When you use the dvr to record your favorite shows they receive a log of what you been watching. Proprietary software always spies because you do have have control over the operating system. I wonder if there is information on this stuff for us security geeks/nerds.
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join:2003-02-06
Onion, NJ
kudos:1 | reply to BubbaKlinton
said by BubbaKlinton :said by SafireDonkey:Oh well, 99.99% of todays people don't even know that their TV is sending what-they-have-been-looking-at-what-time behind their backs too. Who cares, right ?
I know a LOT about cable and the cable boxes. Yes, many broadcasters and cable TV program providers would LOVE to know what people are watching, but even if the provision was there for it, how could it know? It cannot! I leave my cable boxes on all the time. That would mean that NBC might ASSUME I watched NBC all night, and all the time I am at work. It just is useless data. no, there are algorithms that can compensate for that.
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AVDRespice, Adspice, ProspicePremium
join:2003-02-06
Onion, NJ
kudos:1 | reply to antdude
said by antdude:I wonder if there is information on this stuff for us security geeks/nerds.
I know after the Janet Jackson / Justin Timberlake Superbowl scandal, TiVo said that was the most rewinded portion of the show.
Also, in the old days you could hack TiVo, there was a log of timestamped keypresses on the hard drive.
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antdudeA Ninja AntPremium,VIP
join:2001-03-25
United State
kudos:4 Reviews:
·RoadRunner Cable
| said by AVD:said by antdude:I wonder if there is information on this stuff for us security geeks/nerds.
I know after the Janet Jackson / Justin Timberlake Superbowl scandal, TiVo said that was the most rewinded portion of the show. Also, in the old days you could hack TiVo, there was a log of timestamped keypresses on the hard drive. And no one had decrypt the newer DVRs?
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AVDRespice, Adspice, ProspicePremium
join:2003-02-06
Onion, NJ
kudos:1 | I don't know. I'm out of TiVo hacking as a hobby. Comcast on demand is good enough for me.
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As mentioned for Android, Cyanogenmod or a similar custom ROM, an adblocker, Droidwall (iptables), and PDroid & it's derivitives or a similar app like LBE Privacy Guard goes a long way for the informed user to take back control. Cyanogenmod even has it's own optional permission blocking built in, but many prefer the PDroid spoofing approach to help prevent apps crashing. |
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