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I seem to remember CyanogenMod having a per-app sandbox feature around 2013 that returned blank info from a virtual root. Like many point out, this isn't data
by washadjeffmad 6y ago
I seem to remember CyanogenMod having a per-app sandbox feature around 2013 that returned blank info from a virtual root.
Like many point out, this isn't data poisoning, especially if there aren't metric-breaking honeypots around the web seeding these services with enough noise to make these collection practices useless, which there are not.
A more effective alternative might be hashing real contacts to generate seeds of complete but false profile information. Apps thinking they got the mother lode wouldn't be able to assign confidence to any results they didn't have duplicates of, and slowly over time, groups who used this would become worthless.
- sleavey 6y agoI remember that too; it was great. That feature disappeared at some point though - it's not in Lineage OS these days as far as I've found. I recall it made some apps crash, but only as far as I could tell those that weren't robust enough to handle being fed junk data. I'm not sure why that feature disappeared. EDIT: my guess is that a later Android update broke the existing Cyanogenmod code and no one was maintaining it.
- dmt0 6y agoThere's XPrivacy framework that runs on top of Magisk or XPosed (not sure how it works now). I remember it allowed you to give very fine-grained permissions to apps and poison the data as well, with fake contacts, location, etc. Back in the day it required a lot of tinkering to set it up, and would likely make your OS pretty unstable.