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Discussion => Security => Topic started by: anonypunk on June 26, 2013, 01:54 pm
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I was just wondering if it is possible to run a secure ROM or just a separate one with different settings from the MicroSD on your phone. In theory it seems completely possible and it seems like it wouldn't be too hard to do. You'd have to somehow make your phone boot and only operate from that MicroSD. If anyone has info on this I would love to go over it and possibly give it a shot. Maybe do a write up. I imagine the phone would need to also be rooted. Anyway thanks in advance!
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A dev called Tasssader has recently released something called Multirom for certain android devices. As you probably know a rooted phone with a custom recovery can install different ROMs (versions of Android, which is based on linux)and kernels. However this is a bit of a faff. The beauty of multirom is that it allows you to store different ROMS on your SD card and boot them at will, like a dual boot on a laptop. It will not only boot android ROMs but with a special kernel boot Linux distros (Ubuntu, bodhi, Arch so far). Most excitingly from our point of view it will boot from a USB device. ( above I was referring to internal SD card).
It would be amazing if someone could get liberte or tails working with this. I think many Linux distros could be ported, they just need packing in a certain way so that the multirom can unpack them. (The dev provides a template; unfortunately it is beyond my abilities!) They can even have their own kernel, as long as the main kernel on the device is the modified multiboot one. You also need a modified TWRP recovery, and obviously a rooted and unlocked bootloader.
Google multirom. It's early days but it has potential.
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Hey cool thanks!