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The fact that a government would want a Google-free tablet makes complete sense, yet a quick search tells me nothing about any other of this type of initiatives
by Wilya 14y ago
The fact that a government would want a Google-free tablet makes complete sense, yet a quick search tells me nothing about any other of this type of initiatives.
Has any other country gone the same way, even without going as far as providing a consumer version ?
- DanBC 14y agoI'm guessing that Barak Obama's blackberry hardening is something similar. But most countries hand this kind of stuff over to their security services (in the UK this will be GCHQ and CESG) and those organisations are secret.
- ge0rg 14y agoHas any other country gone the same way, even without going as far as providing a consumer version ? In Germany, there is the "Merkel-Phone", a.k.a Simko 3, which is based on Android: http://www.ikuye.com/?/projects/SiMKo/ http://www.ikuye.com/?/projects/SiMKo/ According to a tech talk by one of the developers, they are running several VMs to achieve separation: a BSD derivate for the network access, and one or two Android instances for private/office use.