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Discussion => Security => Topic started by: BigEasy on August 30, 2012, 04:15 am
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Your Cell Phone Is Covered in Spiders! - Practical Android Security
A Hope 9 presentation: https://github.com/cooperq/spiders
video : http://vimeo.com/46044290
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General Android privacy tips
https://encrypteverything.ca/index.php/Cell_phone_privacy_guide_%28Android%29
- Assume your device can and will be compromised, completely, if lost or stolen.
- Nothing on the phone you don't want someone else to have access to, ever.
- Consider not using banking applications.
- Pay close attention to application permissions. Important!
- Consider enabling Disk Encryption if you have ICS (note: this only encrypts the /data partition)
- Use TextSecure which will store all SMS in an encrypted DB as well as allow you to send encrypted SMS to other TextSecure?
- Open source is your friend.
- Turn off all google data syncing (wireless network passwords, gmail, calendar, contacts, etc.)
- Mozilla's boot2gecko is an option and should be fairly privacy-friendly.
- You can run Debian in a chroot environment on Android, but this still requires running the full Android stack.