More Cory Doctorow on a broader impact than rooted Android. It really hits the heart of the matter and totally makes my skin crawl. The idea of a hearing aid with an automatic censoring filter not under my control is extremely unsettling. <br>
<br><a href="http://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html">http://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html</a><br><br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 8:39 AM, Ted W <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ted@techmachine.net">ted@techmachine.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><div>On Mar 17, 2012, at 12:18 PM, Charles Shapiro wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite">
<div>...<div class="im"><br><br>On -- for example -- the Verizon build of Android which came on my<br>phone, it's not so clear-cut. Verizon's Android build won't let me<br>un-install the several applications (e.g. "NFL Mobile", "Verizon<br>
Video", "Verizon Messages", et cetera) which Verizon thinks I should<br>have. That's a gaping security hole, plus being bad, wrong and<br>outrageous. I have no interest in trusting the NFL with any software<br>
on my phone, nor do I need Verizon to read all of my email as it<br>passes through their aggregators. Show me where I can remove<br>arbitrary applications from an IOS device ? Perhaps it's possible, I<br>don't know. I DO know that without that capacity, IOS devices are<br>
only as secure as Apple is. From the URL I provided, that might not<br>be quite secure enough.<br><br></div>...<br></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div>You've found the main reason I encourage anyone running an Android device to root their devices and use third party builds of the operating system. I am running on an EVO 4G from Sprint and there were several of these crap-ware type applications installed (and actively running) on my device. Not only did it pose a security risk that such applications were being forcibly kept on my device but by them constantly running in the background I saw significant drain on my battery. Once I rooted my device and loaded a third party build of Android on the device, not only was I able to provide myself with a more up to day version of all software on the device but I was also free to uninstall ANYTHING on the device my heart so desired.<div class="im">
<div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Curated software repositories such as Apple's App Store or the Android<br>Market are fine, as long as users can opt out of them if (when) they<br>no longer trust the curators</div>
</blockquote><br></div></div><div>As many may remember, there was a young man by the name of Charlie Miller who was recently banned from the app store for disclosing a flaw in said app store. I would say that the banning a well known and respected security researcher would count, in my book, as a reasonable point to, as you would say, "no longer trust the curators".<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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-- <br>Ted W. < <a href="mailto:Ted@Techmachine.net" target="_blank">Ted@Techmachine.net</a> ><br>Registered GNU/Linux user #413569</div><div><br></div></span><br>
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