[Freedombox-discuss] Eben was right, iPhone is absolutely no good for activists

[Jonathan Zeppettini]

If you start with an Android phone and flash it with a third party
open source firmware like CyanogenMod [1] [2] and then only install
open source apps that are from trusted third parties, you would be
well on your way to a more secure experience.

[1] http://www.cyanogenmod.com/
[2] Make sure your device is supported before purchasing.

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 11:29, Mauricio Siller <mauriciosiller at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
> There is a list were we can find the "safest" SmartPhones in the market? I
> thought Android was a safe OS for mobile devices.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 4:06 AM, john francis lee <jfl at robinlea.com> wrote:
>>
>> Same thing goes for android phones. Google is very big on collecting
>> EVERYTHING, and selling it. And location is a very saleable item.
>>
>> On 04/21/2011 02:51:42 PM, Osama Khalid wrote:
>> > The first thing that came to my mind when I read about iPhone's
>> > tracking ability[0] was what Eben Moglen said in his keynote in
>> > FOSDEM
>> > just a couple of months ago:
>> >
>> > > Friends of ours, people seeking freedom, are going to get arrested,
>> > > beaten, tortured, and eventually killed somewhere on earth because
>> > > they’re depending for their political survival in their movements
>> > > for freedom on technology we know is built to sell them out.
>> > >
>> > > I don’t want anybody taking life or death risks to make freedom
>> > > somewhere carrying an iPhone. Because I know what the iPhone can be
>> > > doing to him without our having any way to control it, stop it,
>> > help
>> > > it, or even know it is going on.
>> >
>> > I feel very bad for those activists in the Arab world (and everywhere
>> > else) who may be in great danger because of these records.
>> >
>> > Yet another reason why we should work very hard on making the
>> > Freedombox
>> > real, deployable and easy-to-use.
>> >
>> > [0]: http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/04/apple-location-tracking.html
>> >
>> > --Osama Khalid
>> >
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