Mocana seems to think it it possible. But it does require a special build of the ROM. See http://www.mocana.com/dsf-android.html and take a close look at what they have and have not accomplished.
On May 2, 5:49 pm, bbtad <lawrencebe...@yahoo.com> wrote: > with all the commotion around privacy around phones which have any > proprietary software / drivers inside: > > 1. what would it take to make the following privacy features available > on android? [questions 1a, 1b, 1c] > 2. which of the current hardware models could support these privacy > features? [question 2a] > > here is what's needed to provide privacy beyond the security model > already provided by linux: > > for offline privacy: > 1a: ultimately a [LUKS] encrypted root filesystem (/boot would, of > course, have to stay unencrypted) > > for online privacy: > 1b: be able to selectively turn off cell phone transmission antenna > (receiver must stay on even when xmit is off) > ( possibly also be able to turn off Wifi and Bluetooth > transmission antennas ) > 1c/2a: this one might be a tricky one (does that exist any HW which > could support this?) : filter the packets which are leaving through > cell-phone antenna (like filtering GSM packets in Europe) > > - what other control features would provide for grassroots privacy? > > another question is - how to make sure that none of the proprietary > drivers are collecting (and possibly transmitting when triggered) any > private / personal data from the system? Has anyone at google ever > seen the sources for the binary-only drivers, especially drivers that > drive the cell-phone packet transmission? > > BBTD -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
