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

[Paul Gardner-Stephen]

Running Serval BatPhone on an android phone allows you to turn off
cellular communications completely, thus thwarting any opportunity for
Google or otherwise to do things to your phone remotely, including
collect location data.

Paul.

On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Joshua Spodek <joshuaspodek at yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-04-22 at 12:32 +0000,
> freedombox-discuss-request at lists.alioth.debian.org wrote:
>> (Offtopic)
>> I just wanted to add two more interesting links to projects for a safe
>> android smartphone:
>>
>> 1) F-Droid
>> Android free software *ONLY* apps repository
>> http://f-droid.org/
>>
>> 2) Replicant
>> Android distribution 100% Free Software
>> http://replicant.us/
>
> It may have been off-topic, but thank you for sharing. I didn't know
> about these projects.
>
> Using my Android device without registering with Google has been a
> challenge. These projects will make using it easier.
>
>
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