Message: 3 Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 12:16:21 +0300 From: "James S. K. Makumbi" <[email protected]> To: "'Uganda Linux User Group'" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [LUG] remotely. Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Your security is improved when you move to cyanogenmod because it is (more) opensource and to quote Eric Raymond, "with many eyes all bugs are shallow". Meaning that with more people looking at the code, there is better quality and thus increased security. Moving to Cyanogenmod puts you back in control of your device (unless you are Xperia Arc S then you are screwed at CM 10.). The whole idea behind modding and roms is to bring the fun of Linux to the world of android. Take a look at MIUI (http://en.miui.com/ My iPhone User Interface) by the Chinese.
I vaguely recall the issue of roms like Cynagenmod being more secure was because they lacked addons from carriers and the likes of Samsung, ZTE etc. There was an article in 'El reg'(http://www.theregister.co.uk/) a while back on this. Besides the last I checked there was talk of adding SELinux to the system. regards Joachim _______________________________________________ The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug Send messages to this mailing list by addressing e-mails to: [email protected] Mailing list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Mailing list settings: http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug To unsubscribe: http://kym.net/mailman/options/lug The Uganda LUG mailing list is generously hosted by INFOCOM: http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The mailing list host is not responsible for them in any way.
