-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [Trisquel-users] Using Tor/GPG/whatever in a Android device is
it worth?
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 19:25:11 +0100
From: mtjm@****.** (Michał Masłowski)
To: User help and discussion
There are some specific issues that can be solved, other ones cannot be
when using the phone. You can use a phone running a free system on AP
and having an isolated baseband so it won't spy on data like in RAM or
microphone input, while it knows where you are and has access to all
data sent by the network. Some freer phone projects offer turning the
modem off as a way to avoid some tracking. (Modem firmware is always
nonfree, so it's useful to know what the hardware design prevents it
From spying on.)
Replicant wiki shows which devices have known spying on AP issues.
Unless they use separate interfaces for spying and communication with
the kernel, there are several models where it's safe. Some of them have
other problems, like Galaxy Nexus requiring blobs for its camera and all
supported phones other than GTA04 having nonfree bootloaders.
