Hi David, On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 5:41 PM, David Marceau <uticdmarceau2...@yahoo.ca> wrote: > Ubuntu-Phone and any other GNU/Linux phone should be all about > digital-freedoms, NOT digital-constraints. The Ubuntu Phone will be > about YOU, about do-it-yourself(DIY). Purist DIGITAL-FREEDOM hardware > buyers WILL BUY a phone where you can install/change whatever you want > whenever you want. >
Meanwhile, back on planet earth.. The phone already has chunks you can't fiddle with. Binary blobs for talking to the radios, a OS which is firewalled away from you. There's so far we can go in making an open & free software based phone right now. Maybe in the future every component can be replaced, but right now that's not the planet we live on. > It's ok to install anti-theft software, but the idea of having some > hardware/software within the infrastructure where the user has no > control over it, does not sit well with me. That is not the kind of > phone that I want. > It's less about bits the *user* has no control over and more about bits the *theif* has no control over. I don't want to accidentally leave my phone in a cab and find out that someone just needs to long-press on a security feature to remove/disable it. I would like to have a security feature - like Prey - which is difficult to remove without some work, and maybe even hidden from view. If it could be remotely enabled for the times when I lose my phone, all the better. Sounds like a great use of U1DB where a user could open their laptop, start up the "Where's my Unicorn?" app and find and potentially disable or wipe the device. Cheers, -- Alan Pope Engineering Manager Canonical - Product Strategy +44 (0) 7973 620 164 alan.p...@canonical.com http://ubuntu.com/ -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
