On Mon, Mar 19, 2012, at 01:11 AM, Number Six wrote: > On Sun, Mar 18, 2012, at 06:03 PM, t...@lists.grepular.com wrote: > > I used to use Droidwall, but I now use LBE Privacy Guard instead. > > LBE Privacy Guard provides a per application network firewall, but > > it also lets you block loads of other stuff on a per app basis too, > > like access to location, the call history, contacts, IMEI and so on. > > When an app tries to access one of these things, it pops up a > > confirmation dialogue where you can specify allow/block and whether > > or not to remember that choice. It is also free, but it also > > requires a rooted phone. > > LBE Privacy Guard doesn't have a lot of info about it or any source > code available, and for some reason requests Phone State and Identity > permissions. It could be recording who you call and using it for ad > targeting.. > > Of course either DroidWall or LBE could be listening to your phone > calls without having any permissions since they both require root.. > But at least DroidWall is open source. > > As much as I want a permissions editor too, I think DroidWall is still > the best solution to the Android privacy nightmare. > > Maybe someone can convince Cyanogen to work with the PDroid guy to > develop a built-in solution?
I just found that Cyanogen already supports editing permissions if you go through the preferences to enable the feature. It's just disabled per default. Cyanogenmod Settings -> Application settings -> Permission management. You can then disable/enable permissions by clicking on them in the normal application manager. Quite slick. With this + DroidWall, I feel like I've finally been liberated from ceaseless Android surveillance! Too bad my freedom probably an illusion until someone reverse engineers and audits the radio firmware.. http://replicant.us/ looks promising, but seems a bit green still. Still, freedom is within our grasp! Now if we could just do something about the constant gassing, kidnapping, and those damned floating beachballs... - Six -- http://www.fastmail.fm - A no graphics, no pop-ups email service _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
