[android-beginners] Re: Traffic filtering options

2009-07-08 Thread Bryan Ashby
Mark Murphy wrote: Only if you are creating your own firmware or are contributing modifications to the Android open source project: http://source.android.com Ordinary Java applications can use Java sockets, but only for their own application -- they cannot affect other applications'

[android-beginners] Re: Traffic filtering options

2009-07-08 Thread Mark Murphy
Bryan Ashby wrote: I'm not asking to hijack a Android, but are there legit methods for locking down a device? Unfortunately, one man's locking down is another man's hijacking. The legit methods pretty much would involve core firmware modifications. Android, as it stands today, is definitely

[android-beginners] Re: Traffic filtering options

2009-07-07 Thread Mark Murphy
Bryan Ashby wrote: I am looking for information on traffic filtering options on the Android platform. That is, filtering Internet traffic such as HTTP, and IM. For example, on the desktop this can be achieved via a device driver such as NDIS, Windows Filtering Platform (WFP) or a Layered