Fungi4All wrote: > On a previous question of why I hate such devices I think Joe has > answered for me in most counts. I really believe they were designed > from scratch to monitor every minute of anyone's life. Just in case > at any point in the future some authority may want to back track the > live profile of a certain state or corporate enemy. Which is > understandable for industry to be exchanging favors and gifts, as this is > the nature of the modern reverse welfare state. >
The hardware can not track your activities - it is the software > > The latest interpretation of the bill of rights states that: you have the > right to free speech as long as we know who is exercising the right and > where we may find him/her in case we need to extract information at > homeland.s basement, somewhere in nowhereland. Haha - this is a good one - I am just wondering when americans will raise up - you need a change over there - big change > > There have been leaks by android hardware engineers that there is so > many backdoors engineered within these systems that it is virtually > impossible to ever make it secure (orbot developers have admitted to > this but not given up entirely). The goal of a portable pocket > size open architecture open source system seems to be possible but > it comes with a cost. Just a display for one of those Berkeley open > boards costs as much as a late model android tablet. Getting up to > i-phone cost with something that will end up being 4 times as big and > heavy is a sport for the affluent. Again mixing up hardware with software - the software is android - not the hardware > For scientific field work android seems very poor, while in idiotic > gadgets and games they are unbelievably wealthy. So even a > jailed vm of debian being able to run apps on the run maybe just > what it may be good for. The only reason it ended up in my hands > is that someone was really fed up with stalled applications after > a year that the 4core system with 1/2Meg Ram had 0 value. hehe - android can not execute processes in parallel > Great battery still. This is a lollypop and I also have a previous > model with a dead sealed wired battery and 1M ram. So I could > possibly end up with a good one. Soldering explosives is my > second hobby to hacking this device which I am better at :) > Back to gnuroot debian, I managed to get lxde to run and upgraded > to buster, not broken yet. This was done with xserver xsdl which is > a ton more realistic than xsdl's app called debian with xfce. > If you play around with mouse/touch conf it ends up acting almost > as a real touch screen. This all depends to your tolerance to frisbie > throwing gadgets. > Can you hack/pen test your device from inwards attacking its ip? > Anyway, it is a learning experience. I think you have to buy Nokia N9 or newer SailFish OS device ;-) regards
