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I like to see it enable the user to logs and optionally block connections attempt base on IP/dns names with both whitelist and blacklist. And track/logs all of
by tkinom 11y ago
I like to see it enable the user to logs and optionally block connections attempt base on IP/dns names with both whitelist and blacklist.
And track/logs all of them per Apk.
- dublinben 11y ago>And track/logs all of them per Apk. Don't run programs you can't trust.
- bunnymancer 11y agoNo point in a smartphone if you were to follow that mindset
- gcb0 11y agogood luck with THAT mindset. edit: i never touched ios (except for my employer, but it's their data) and my Android phones all have my kernel and pf tables limiting all apps network access. specially to the local network!
- dogma1138 11y agoYou can't trust any program. And say you do trust but verify is a much better strategy.
- naasking 11y agoWhitelists and blacklists are useless security theatre. Any non-blacklisted IP could proxy to a blacklisted IP, and whitelisting just means you have to jump through hoops just to get your work done, which users will always do.
- hackuser 11y ago> Any non-blacklisted IP could proxy to a blacklisted IP There always are ways to defeat any security; the goal is to make it more difficult and costly for the attacker, and blacklists do that. > whitelisting just means you have to jump through hoops just to get your work done, which users will //always// do. I agree that's true for most end-users, but the HN crowd and other power users could make good use of it.
- nathancahill 11y agoSomething like Little Snitch for mobile? I've been running Firewall IP[0] on my jailbroken iOS device for a while and it works great. It's incredible to see the amount of needless connections apps try to spawn. [0] http://r-rill.net/FirewalliP7/FiPDepiction.html http://r-rill.net/FirewalliP7/FiPDepiction.html