<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>The worst part, is not -knowing- your data was stolen. If someone steals my wallet, I know it is gone, if someone copies your data, you don't know it until they use it. </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>As far as cyanogenmod, you will also want to make sure you have a supported phone first. IIRC they chain the bootloader, use the same kernel, and drivers, and a new rootfs. <br></span></div><div
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style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On Friday, April 4, 2014 10:59 PM, Richard Houser <rick@divinesymphony.net> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv1031141928"><div>For starters, you have to forget the base image that ships and go with something like aosp or a cyanogenmod base. Then, be very careful about the perms you grant apps, in particular phone identity.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div class="yiv1031141928yqt1057842517" id="yiv1031141928yqtfd66987"><div class="yiv1031141928gmail_quote">On April 4, 2014 4:50:47 PM EDT, Clay Dowling <clay@lazarusid.com> wrote:<blockquote class="yiv1031141928gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid
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<pre class="yiv1031141928k9mail">On 04/04/2014 02:19 PM, Chick Tower wrote:<br clear="none"></pre><blockquote class="yiv1031141928gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid #729fcf;padding-left:1ex;"> I don't own a smart phone. I don't want a smart phone. I read<br clear="none"> frequently about how they are easily exploited and often just give<br clear="none"> away your information. At last night's meeting, I asked how smart,<br clear="none"> security-conscious Linux users can trust their phones, and the answer<br clear="none"> I received was a universal "I don't trust my smart phone." Does<br clear="none"> anyone else know of any ways to safely use a smart phone (your own,<br clear="none"> not a borrowed one)?<br clear="none"><br clear="none"> I was also told of a method thieves are reportedly using to find<br clear="none"> houses to burglarize. They break into a car at some event that will<br clear="none"> last a while (I
think the Silverdome was mentioned), use the car's GPS<br clear="none"> to find home, and go there, knowing at least some of the occupants are<br clear="none"> gone. So maybe programming "home" to
be somewhere else nearby is a<br clear="none"> good idea, if you don't want to drive a car without a GPS like I do.<br clear="none"></blockquote>The device isn't to be trusted, and shouldn't have sensitive information<br clear="none">on it. Among other things, it's really easy to leave a phone somewhere,<br clear="none">or have it stolen. Like all cell phones, smart or dumb, it's hackable. <br clear="none">The FBI, or anybody who has a bit of savvy, can use your phone as a<br clear="none">listening and tracking device. Even the cheapest of phones will divulge<br clear="none">location information when properly probed, and the microphone can be<br clear="none">turned on. But again, your cheap brick phone is just as vulnerable to<br clear="none">this attack as a smart phone.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Putting sensitive information on a phone isn't a good idea, because it's<br clear="none">an electronic device that can be compromised. But the risk
isn't<br clear="none">significantly greater than the risk you run from carrying around your<br clear="none">wallet, which is full of sensitive information and entirely susceptible<br clear="none">to the five finger discount attack.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Clay<br clear="none"><hr><br clear="none">linux-user mailing list<br clear="none">linux-user@egr.msu.edu<br clear="none"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user">http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user</a><br clear="none"></blockquote></div></div><br clear="none">
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