With the exception of LineageOS, all of the handset manufacturers examined collect a list of all the apps installed on a handset. This is potentially sensitive information since it can reveal user interests, e.g., a mental health app, a Muslim prayer app, a gay dating app, a Republican news app. There is no opt out from this data collection. - lwn / A study of data collection by Android devices

• Passer à un nouvel appareil Android
  • “commencer” sur le nouvel appareil (une fois qu’un compte google a été configuré)
  • ouvrir l’appli google sur l’ancien appareil => declencher la copie sur le nouvel appareil (se fait par wifi point à point si pas de cable) => “configure et restaurer / configurer un appareil a proximité”
• Point d’accès/partage de connection - maintenant a sa propre entrée dans l’accès rapide (le point d’accès est transféré d’un téléphone a l’autre).

# Apps not transfered

• eg: Wallpaper apps is not transfered (not anymore on google play)
• default ringtones are not transfered (see adb to get them)

# Privacy 👁️📡

• Everyone knows your location / HN - tracking myself down through in-app ads
  • Mobile carriers can get your GPS location
• Washington Post’s Privacy Tip: Stop Using Chrome, Delete Meta Apps (and Yandex)

• wifi & 6G cellular. - WiFi could become an invisible mass surveillance system

• Fedware: Government apps that spy harder than the apps they ban

# Google install

Ces applications sont apparues en secret sur tous les téléphones — supprime-les

• Applcation Message / Gerer les avertissement de contenue sensibme - scan les “corps nues” dans toutes la gallerie.
• android Key system verifier - sensé amélioré la sécurité

# Security

• GrapheneOS accessed Android security patches but not allowed to publish sources
• Pixnapping Attack / HN - a new class of attacks that allows a malicious Android app to stealthily leak information displayed by other Android apps or arbitrary websites.
• AppCloud - Samsung has shipped its Galaxy M, F, and A series smartphones with a little-known app called AppCloud. Despite its name, AppCloud isn’t a cloud storage service. It’s essentially an app-installer that surfaces third-party app recommendations during device setup. (this appears to be the case worldwide).

# Alternative OS

The challenge isn’t buying it, the challenge is being able to do phone things with it. - Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone

# Censorship 📵

• Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users

# Graphene OS

• intro / HN
• GrapheneOS is ready to break free from Pixels
• This blog is running on a recycled Google Pixel 5 (2024)

# Sailfish OS

a Linux-based European alternative to dominating mobile operating systems. With Sailfish OS you can also run Android™ apps with our dedicated AppSupport solution.

Sailfish licensees choose if they wish to use the Android compatibility part in the OS, or instead opt for fully native solutions.

AppSupport in Sailfish OS has reached Android 13 level.

• Jolla C2 Community Phone - 290€

# Phone

• Taking apart that one phone… we already forgot existed?

# see also

• Google will develop Android OS behind closed doors starting next week
  • reminder of Open Solaris. We will no longer distribute source code for the entirety of the Solaris operating system in real-time, the code never came out from that point onwards.
  • Android Open Source Project