HTC Android handsets spew private data to ANY app

2011-10-04 Thread sara fink
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/03/htc_android_security/ ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: looking for an embedded linux hw.

2011-10-04 Thread Erez D
btw, I found open-rd.org. as far as i see it is a sheeva-plug, and there are both software, hardware schematics etc... i think the seeva-plug derivatives (e.g seagate dockstar) are a subset of that design I saw websites with instructions on how to add anothe GBE or how to add an SD to the

Re: HTC Android handsets spew private data to ANY app

2011-10-04 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
2011/10/4 sara fink sara.f...@gmail.com: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/03/htc_android_security/ Hold your breath: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/04/htc_security_fix/ ;-) -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmidt.org ___ Linux-il mailing

Re: looking for an embedded linux hw.

2011-10-04 Thread Shachar Shemesh
On 09/15/2011 02:37 PM, Erez D wrote: Hello We need to design a system, which communicates data at rates of around 30Mbs via ethernet. We are designing the hardware from scratch. I Thought of assembling a board with a processor (which will run linux) and a small fpga. However, I do not

Re: HTC Android handsets spew private data to ANY app

2011-10-04 Thread sara fink
Nice. But see this comment: the question is not how long for a fix (although tht's important), it's... #http://forums.theregister.co.uk/post/1190903 Why -and when - did HTC decide to log user activity? Surely that's a breach of privacy? On the other hand, if this is a package that provides user

[OT] Re: HTC Android handsets spew private data to ANY app

2011-10-04 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
NB: marked [OT] in subject, I believe in conformance with an earlier discussion on Android topics on Linux-IL (that I am too lazy to dig up a link to in the archives). On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 6:29 PM, sara fink sara.f...@gmail.com wrote: Why -and when - did HTC decide to log user activity?

New (First!) smart phone (OT_

2011-10-04 Thread Stan Goodman
As per Subject, this is my first smart phone, and I am engaged in trying to discover if I myself as smart as it is; the outlook is bleak. More than it should be because the documentation seems to be written for a reader who already knows the score and needs only a bit of memory nudging to

Re: New (First!) smart phone (OT_

2011-10-04 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
Welcome to the world of the cellular. First - there are various keyboards available for the device. Their key size might differ, layout might differ, and ease of use, for you in person, would differ as well. About stylus - you will need a device designed for capacitive screen. Although I am not

Re: New (First!) smart phone (OT_

2011-10-04 Thread Micha
The keyboard tried to guess what key you intended to press to compensate for the small keys. Once you learn how to aim it gets more tolerable. In most screens you can rotate the device to type in landscape mode which gives you a bigger keyboard. There is also a spell