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It's a Samsung. I find hard to believe that Samsung smartphone users have any concern about privacy and/or security.
by caiob 13y ago
It's a Samsung. I find hard to believe that Samsung smartphone users have any concern about privacy and/or security.
- Nanzikambe 13y agoCare to elaborate? As a linux user, and (very) amateur kernel hacker I've always bought Samsung phones because they've been pretty forecoming with releasing the source for their android devices: http://www.androidcentral.com/samsung-galaxy-s4-kernel-source-released http://www.androidcentral.com/samsung-galaxy-s4-kernel-sourc... Obviously this is a GPL compliance thing, but it enables security minded people like myself to root the device, inspect the underlying source, and secure it pretty much like a regular box. What alternative do you suggest?
- drdaeman 13y ago> releasing the source for their android devices > it enables security minded people like myself to root the device Actually, having kernel sources doesn't enable you anything except for, possibly (but not certainly), building (but not installing) your own kernel. You're able to install customized kernel and/or recovery on most Samsung phones, but that's completely unrelated to any FLOSS source code releases. Actually, this is usually done using proprietary tool (ODIN) communicating with proprietary hardware and firmware. They're just generous to allow you to do so (but they tick a flag stating your firmware is unofficial, and recently they started to blow a fuse to prevent unticking)