Ordinary private application data is protected from other applications and from the user as long as the designed permission mechanism remains intact. When that is not intact (on a developer phone, or on a consumer device where one of the inevitable security holes has been exploited to gain root access) then nothing which can be accessed in any manner from the linux or android level should be considered protected from disclosure to the user or to another program which has had its permissions extended.
On Jan 1, 6:19 pm, azahara <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Does anybody know if there is some protected memory space in android, > that eventually can be used for storing confidential information that > cannot be either copied or accessible by the user, malware or > intruder?. The question is focused on how the android O.S. manages the > hardware utilities of a mobile phone. > > One alternative that I consider as valid is the use of the SIM card > for these purposes, given that this is a trusted platform module. > However the SIMtoolkit offers by android is limited and does not > support to perform actions of reading and writing of data by > applications (just modification of contact lists and state of the SIM > card). > > Any hint or idea, always will be welcome! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Security Discussions" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-security-discuss?hl=en.
