Android 3.0 already supports an encrypted root fs.

On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 8:49 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
>
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Dianne Hackborn
Android framework engineer
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Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to
provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails.  All such
questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and
answer them.

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