On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 2:14 PM, paddy joesoap <paddyjoes...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Thanks for the link. Interesting concept of a Tor-Android Combo. > I use it regularly, glad you like it. > > I am just a beginner with Android (effective as of today). People who > have android phones tell me they are locked and must be jailbroken to > get root access for applications to use kernel level resources such as > iptables. However, I presumed the Android SDK Eclipse plugin could > simulate this, such that an application can be created and tested > using the android emulator phone as if a real phone had root access to > the Linux kernel. Am I mistaken? > > the reason i sent that was because there is a link to the code below. Orbot uses iptables and root access to route all network traffic through the Tor network. so, in a word, yes, that kind of thing would require root access afaik. respectfully, =jt > > On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 7:03 PM, caine tighe <ciphersby...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > you might be interested in the tor implementation dubbed Orbot. it > > can be found here: https://guardianproject.info/apps/orbot/ > > > > respectfully, > > =jt > > > > sent from phone > > > > On Jan 11, 2011, at 13:53, paddy joe <paddyjoes...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> Hi there, > >> > >> Is is possible to write Android applications based on the (Eclipse) > >> Android SDK that have access to the underlying Linux kernal programs/ > >> resources such as iptables configuratuon ? > >> > >> I would like to be able to configure iptables using an android GUI app > >> or perhaps develop a low-level Linux packet sniffer of my own and a > >> corresponding high-level android app that presents the results > >> emulated in the SDK. Is this possible? Is root access provided? > >> > >> regards, > >> Patrick. > >> > >> -- > >> unsubscribe: > >> android-kernel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<android-kernel%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > >> website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-kernel > > > > -- > unsubscribe: > android-kernel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<android-kernel%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-kernel > -- unsubscribe: android-kernel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-kernel
