[tor-talk] Off topic- Android is suspect spyware?

2014-12-09 Thread andre76
Anything that google touches or promotes is very suspicious. Now that Android seems to be a predominant os for many gadgets I'd like your opinion about it. I do understand that Android's kernel is Linux but beyond that I don't know much. Is there a way to eliminate all of the google bloatware and

Re: [tor-talk] Off topic- Android is suspect spyware?

2014-12-09 Thread grarpamp
On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 6:22 PM, wrote: > Anything that google touches or promotes is very suspicious. Obviously. > I do understand that Android's kernel is Linux but beyond that https://www.google.com/search?q=freebsd+ARM+snapdragon > Is there a way to eliminate all of the google bloatware an

Re: [tor-talk] Off topic- Android is suspect spyware?

2014-12-09 Thread andre76
'Tried installing Orbot but the device needed some sort of superuser access which presented other problems. Oh well. Roland -- bookc...@box.az On Wed, Dec 10, 2014, at 01:26 AM, grarpamp wrote: > On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 6:22 PM, wrote: > > Anything that google touches or promotes is very

Re: [tor-talk] Off topic- Android is suspect spyware?

2014-12-09 Thread Colin Mahns
You might be interested in this: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/mission-impossible-hardening-android-security-and-privacy Orwall can be used as a replacement for the droidwall scripts. Colin andr...@fastmail.fm: > Anything that google touches or promotes is very suspicious. Now that > Android

Re: [tor-talk] Off topic- Android is suspect spyware?

2014-12-09 Thread Juan
On Wed, 10 Dec 2014 00:22:57 +0100 andr...@fastmail.fm wrote: > Is there a way to eliminate all of the google bloatware and programs > from an Android tablet Yes. Get a tablet that can run linux. > and have a simple tablet that runs android > without having to deal with google? That go

Re: [tor-talk] Off topic- Android is suspect spyware?

2014-12-10 Thread Jon Tullett
On 10 December 2014 at 01:22, wrote: > Anything that google touches or promotes is very suspicious. Anything that any corporation touches is suspicious by the same measures, if you want to be sufficiently paranoid about it. You think there's no Chinese spyware in Huawei phones, or that Apple is

Re: [tor-talk] Off topic- Android is suspect spyware?

2014-12-10 Thread Yuri
On 12/10/2014 22:54, Jon Tullett wrote: Yes. Get a forked device, like an Amazon Kindle Fire - such vendors replace much of the Google software, often including the default app store, with their own. But if you trust the third party more than Google, your paranoia is broken. Spyware can be embe

Re: [tor-talk] Off topic- Android is suspect spyware?

2014-12-10 Thread Jon Tullett
On 11 December 2014 at 09:02, Yuri wrote: > On 12/10/2014 22:54, Jon Tullett wrote: >> >> Yes. Get a forked device, like an Amazon Kindle Fire - such vendors >> replace much of the Google software, often including the default app >> store, with their own. But if you trust the third party more than

Re: [tor-talk] Off topic- Android is suspect spyware?

2014-12-11 Thread andre76
As I said in a previous email, essentially, I've stopped using Android. I had purchased a cheap tablet but now the wifi is phyically torn out and I use it for a simple calculator. I don't own a cell phone and have no need for one. Paranoia over digital/online privacy as it's now called is what we