yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Security Discussion] cinnaC2C:
Links and proof that can police track you

After prepairing some links for you guys to see, I was informed by XDA that I don't have the privilage to post outside links untill I reach 10 posts.

I will update this thread then.

The above two links have some of the same information and some different. Shows you how the Police do it. WITHOUT A WARRANT.

Generally, the information is sold to a third party by your cell phone provider and the third party sells to law enforcement and anyone who is saavy enough to find them over the internet.

I have to go at the moment, but I will updating this thread within the next few days with more links, and with actual companies that sell the information online in realtime to ANYONE. It is not against the law.
[Security Discussion] E:V:A:
just put the links on pastebin and post the pasbin "code" and I will repost the proper links here.
[Security Discussion] Phurkus:
they can spy on everyone man :(

i heard on documentrys that your phone doesnt even have to be turned on so they can use the microphone to hear whats around the phone.

the only way to be secure is to pull the battery out
[Security Discussion] CHEF-KOCH:
I wouldn't say it's impossible but it's hard and it needs a lot of knowledge to handle such low level attacks. But it's nothing new, as long there are no satellites that aren't controlled by external possible attackers it's always hard, to only stuff we can do is to use secure software, encryption and stuff which was definitely tested from the experts. And this not only started after 9/11!

There are also several malware "which fake" a shutdown, you will see a shutdown logo and the usually stuff but in fact it's listening to the wifi or as you said to the camera/microphone. To prevent this you need to remove the battery (which isn't possible on all devices).

Here are some docs info (in germany/english)

http://www.wasc.noaa.gov/wrso/security_guide/cellular.htm#Cellular Phones

http://www.br.de/fernsehen/das-erst...smartphone-als-super-wanze-108~attachment.pdf

http://www.politechbot.com/docs/fbi.ardito.roving.bug.opinion.120106.txt

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013...-protect-yourself-from-government-spying.html
[Security Discussion] optimumpro:
IMSI catch detector can only give you some protection against local spooks. National and international spooks don't need to use IMSI catchers, they can get you through telecoms and you'll have no way of knowing they are doing it.

Those who say that users don't need root are dead wrong, as in that case, users become victims of system apps, which have root anyway. And having no root is a good "protection" against users. When users have root, they can at least have a prompt and/or password against any app including those in the system.

If you get rid of GAPPS, at least you get rid of one layer that can be used for spying. Smart user can reduce their risk further by isolating the OS, so that sophisticated spooks are forced to use baseband exploits. And if they go that length to get you, throw away your phone and run...
[Security Discussion] CHEF-KOCH:
Exactly what I'm thinking sometimes, but you don't need to forget that even such good coded rooting apps such as chainfire's SuperSU are sometimes not perfect. There was several attacks on his app (e.g. CVE-2013-6768/CVE-2014-3153/CVE-2014-0506 and such) or directly on the kernel (CVE-2014-4321).

And of course the user seems also never perfect too, CVE-2014-3153 also showed that some rooting apps may come with possible negative side benefits, like towelroot. Of course most of the mentioned stuff is already fixed or doesn't matter at all because there is a new Android version which included a fix for that but the user is may to lazy to update/there is no update from oem/they simply forget it or they just simply don't care. - and in the meantime hackers also updates there stuff, really!

Generally I wouldn't say gapps is always they way we need to talk about if it comes to the security discussion. Because such apps are normally under the microscope but sideloding stuff is always risky, because (again, the user) most of all never check any signatures or compare it with the official ones or reading after every update the user feedback.

Another thing is that Google Play services is a MUST for most of all apps, not only the gapps one, to provide gcm features and such (this runs all the time in the background as root). And since it isn't avaible as source code it's difficult to say what it really does in the background (it's also getting bigger and bigger - orginal services started with around ~17 MB and now it's 30+MB - sure Android also gets some new features but imho they should split it, so that only newer devices need all stuff).

Yes, that's correct and that's the reason I not recommend to use this app, it's far away from stable and it's more like placebo. If you really went to a demonstration, just leave you phone at home or shut it down/airplain mode (no need any tool at all) and just use a camera without wifi or whatever which truly works offline. Nobody scanns for possible attacks all the time and it doesn't make any sense to do because it will cause huge battery drains and people getting mad if you look at your handy all the time (paranoid or what?). I'm not saying the project or the idea itself is bad but it's to difficult to integrate such stuff in a software based app which have there limits.
[Security Discussion] aybabtu:
Been researching this topic, found this post:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=58451059#post58451059

Then clicked on security discussion, hey it's on the front page ;)

While I'm reading I just came up with an idea.

Since the worst concerns come from the proprietary baseband OS, and it's a separated OS, is it reasonably to believe that when the sensor is being used by Linux it can't be accessed by baseband concurrently? Or in other words, do they block?

Assuming they do block we can at least implement 2 functions to circumvent the complexity of figuring out the blob:

1) Home screen plugin showing status of these sensory hardwares

2) "Privacy mode" app which occupy all these hardwares when activated

Yea battery consumption might be an issue, but,

1) Given the peace of mind when required is totally worth it

2) These are low powered hardwares (?)

3) "Super" battery is coming real soon (tm)

Anyway I'm no expert, could anyone in the scene tell me if the above make sense?
[Security Discussion] aliyangohar4:
Surprise, Surprise
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] deedwar:
​

"The Rootbox ROM combines the best custom features of Android Open Kang Project (AOKP) and CyanogenMod (CM) ROM in a single profile, which includes per app DPI, tablet UI and Language features.

-OpenSEMC RC2 3.4 Kernel

-AOKP Features

-CM Profiles

-Per App DPI

-Per App Tablet UI

-Per App Language

-OTA Updates - Goo Manager

-Navigation Bar Colour

-Camera: Save to external memory

-Phone: Advance Phone Settings (Vibrate on Answer, Every 45 Seconds, On Hangup and On Call Waiting)

-Phone: Noise Suppression

-MMS: Message rate alerts (Modify SMS message limit for alert)

-MMS: Fully Customizable MMS Theme

-MMS: Soft Keyboard Type (Emoji, Enter to Send, Enter for a New Line)

-Home button call answer (Accessibility Option)

-Variable size pattern lockscreen

-LCD Density Changer

-Low Battery Warning (Pop-up & Sound, Pop-up only, Sound only, Off)

-Option to control cursor in text fields using volume keys

-Disable Fullscreen Keyboard (Landscape mode)

-Expanded Desktop

-Hold Back to Kill

-CRT Animation (Screen On/Screen Off)

-Lockscreen Shortcuts (Paranoid)

-Pie (Paranoid Android)

-Lockscreen Targets (CM)

-Screen Security Features (Unlock options: Quick Unlock, Delay Screen Lock, Menu Unlock, Home Unlock)

-cLock (Chronus)

-Option to disable sound when adjusting volume

-Launch Music app on Headset connection

-Hardware Keys Remapping

-Lockscreen Hardware Keys Remapping"

-AOKP Ribbons

RootBox 4.2 Download

Slim Gapps Download

Crossbreader MOD Download

NOTE:

- This ROM will be replacing my PAC ROM, It has the exact same features in that it is AOKP, CM and PA all in one but it is alot more polished and smooth.

- To Enable charge by USB you have to disable "USB Debugging" in "Developer Options"

- I recommend you "Disable HW overlays" Also in "Developer Options" will remove alot of the visual artifacts

BUGS:

- You will have to flash my boot.img from beanstalk to be able to install a different ROM from CWM as it wont recognize your device.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] teddy0209:
Thanks for the new Rom... Downloading... Will try it later...

Edit: Using it now... I'll give my feedback later after exploring the rom...
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] chrissoriano:
:D will try it llater , thanks deedwar...
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] mityokm:
:laugh::laugh::laugh: LOL
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] teddy0209:
What's funny about that?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] boyheadkick:
wow, this is unbelievable! :good: nice job [MENTION=1171001]deedwar[/MENTION]

so development for PAC has stopped?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] deedwar:
I will try it once the 4.3 kernel has been released but it just wasnt smooth enough for my liking and a pain to compile. Rootbox has required me to make a few changes but nowhere near as many.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] wen hau:
how bout bugs?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] deedwar:
Any bugs that are in my other roms will most likely be present in this. To be honest i dont really use my phone for anything other then facebook, whatsapp, messaging and phone calls so i really dont get a handle on what is or isnt working.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] andacro:
Installed fine. Booting now. :)

Updatet apps during the boot and went into a boot loop. Reset it, and looping still.

Wiped cache, dalvik and system before installing. Came from Trinity 3.2.

How do I enter recovery?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] deedwar:
Should be able to enter recovery by pressing volume up. It is CWM, If you extract boot.img from my beanstalk ROM and flash that with fastboot it should be right to flash. I have no idea why it would bootloop. It must need the data partition wiped too. I have always come from one of my own roms never from trinity or stock.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] andacro:
Fixed it with the help of this thread: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1876940

Booted fine now.

Thanks!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] boyheadkick:
what are you running as your daily driver right now by the way?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] deedwar:
It was beanstalk but im not a big fan of the xposed framework and i like having per app dpi so now i have swapped to Rootbox, it is just as smooth as beanstalk and seems to be a little more organised.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] chrissoriano:
toggles tiles not present even if you activate it
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] deedwar:
What do you mean by this, I have added the silent toggle. Is that what you mean or is there something else that doesnt work.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] andacro:
Can I uninstall Nova and use stock launcher?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] deedwar:
If by stock you mean trubuchet then if you can find the apk and install it then you can just freeze or uninstall nova with titanium. However i removed it from my build so it was never built or included.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] andacro:
Thank you! Installed Smart Launcher. Best launcher I have seen so far.

RB Wallpaper doesn't work. Shows the name of the pictures, but no picture, and "set as wallpaper" gives a black wallpaper.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] deedwar:
Thanks I will look into the wallpaper and see what is happening.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] andacro:
Thanks! Beside that I haven't found any bugs. Even the GPS works great, and is fast. Had to use a gps fix app to get it working in 4.1.2.

Great ROM. Thank you! :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] boyheadkick:
im just booting my device now and i just lol'ed at the bootanimation..it's huge :laugh: it looks like wvga quality
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] andacro:
Nice change from the stock yes! :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] mityokm:
Excuse me, no offens, just it was funny that you are writing you try this rom using an iPhone :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] teddy0209:
Ah... I think you misunderstood... I'm using the rom on my acro s right now... I'm just using my iphone's tapatalk to access xda... Lol... =)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] boyheadkick:
I actually used to run deed's PAC V8 before switching to Trinity rom..i just tried out his new Rootbox cause it is very much similar to PAC

boyheadkick™

Sent from my Trinity Vengeance RaptorXL powered Acro S using Tap-Tap-Tapatalk

Edit: charging is a bit tricky though..i already disabled usb debugging but still not able to charge through usb..even on the dock its a bit tricky, charging suddenly stops then i have to pull out the device and put it back in the dock for it to charge again

Weird thing too, settings suddenly closes by itself
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] winsonlam:
very good rom

Rocking with the phablet UI:cowboy:

btw sometimes the phone will suddenly slow down and it feels like running on a 50 mhz cpu:eek:

and also the i/o governor wont change

i thinks that its kernel related and i will try to use the beanstalk one
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] deedwar:
If you use the beanstalk one it will fix your problems. When I compiled the rom I didn't use the new config so doesn't have all the added features. Will fix in next release. It is kernel related. I flashed the beanstalk kernel myself.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] drumcodex:
[MENTION=1171001]deedwar[/MENTION] - now that this is your preferred rom, will you then support this more or will beans and slim get the same attention from you?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] chrissoriano:
camera freeze after a shot you have to wait 20sec

can anyone upload beanstalk camera?

thanks this rom really nice but need a little bit to fix

---------- Post added at 02:36 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:27 PM ----------

i change my dpi to 240 when the toggles appear i return back to default dpi..

coz when i installed rootbox toggles panel didnt appear

but now its fine only im experiencing camera bug
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] juanenbas:
Deed is possible that Bluetooth doesnt work ?, He didnt engage

Confirm please

Thanks a lot

Juan
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] drumcodex:
Panorama makes FC in focal.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] deedwar:
Slim and beanstalk have both had a feature freeze as they have moved on to android 4.3 even rootbox has so they will all be getting bug fixes really.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] deedwar:
Bluetooth Pairs and sends files between my computer so it works at least to that degree. I dont have a bluetooth stereo or anything like that to test whether those features are present but bluetooth itself does initialize.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] deedwar:
Yes thanks for that. I did realize that from my beanstalk even. I have been trying to figure out what the issue is myself but because focal is so new i thought it would have been fixed by now.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] deedwar:
I will start including the camera from beanstalk which is actually from OpenSEMC rc2 in this ROM till focal is completely bug free. Will be in next release.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] drumcodex:
OK. Didnt use focal in beans, also deleted it here and use the camera instead
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] boyheadkick:
beanstalk 1.302 kernel?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] deedwar:
Yep. ATM im uploading an updated version of Rootbox. My uploads are crap so will be a while. But in it i have fixed the stock camera, the wallpapers have been fixed and also fixed the Hybrid Settings not showing anything on the first page and the kernel now has all the features of beanstalk. However it is using CWM and not TWRP like beanstalk so if you prefer CWM i recommend you wait for the update to upload.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] boyheadkick:
i think you meant to say the kernel is using twrp instead of cwm ;)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] drumcodex:
Getting a 1000 more score in antutu benchmark with this rom compared with beanstalk
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] deedwar:
Now im not sure what i said. LOL

If you want a kernel with TWRP then use the boot.img from beanstalk

If you want a kernel with CWM then flash the the update. Which is now live.

It all depends on your preference.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] boyheadkick:
Antutu just gave me this..

When you see it. . .lol

boyheadkick™

Sent from my RootBox powered Acro S using Tap-Tap-Tapatalk
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] shafha:
The one in beanstalk does, but he meant right - new rootbox update uses cwm :)

Both scores in same version of antutu? I'm afraid the old version scores are incomparable with v4.0.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] boyheadkick:
previous version of Antutu gave me 9k

latest version gave me 12k

:eek:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] chrissoriano:
[MENTION=1171001]deedwar[/MENTION] pls!!! include twrp in your next release

so that we can revert back to beanstalk or slim bean..

thanks!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] deedwar:
Trust me I would have this release if it wasn't being a pain to include. Will see what I can do.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] chrissoriano:
we trust you a lot you know that , we are here to support you man...

goodluck and thank you so much for your hard work...
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] drumcodex:
Going back to beans, dont like the browser and message app in this rom, and battery drains much faster.

Hope u still support beans, when something new happens
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] deedwar:
What if different with message app and browser.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] drumcodex:
Browser have those sitetabs at the top, takes to much screen for nothing, message app dont have the theme options like beans. Otherwise i like the rom, specially the animations.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] boyheadkick:
Charging from 8% to 100% took me almost 3 hours, is this normal?

boyheadkick™

Sent from my RootBox powered Acro S using Tap-Tap-Tapatalk
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] lewis021:
One question, how's the camera compared to stock Sony? :D
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] boyheadkick:
Not too bad, though i mostly use the Lenovo Supercamera app than stock, even when i was running Trinity Vengeance...it takes way better photos than stock Sony and AOSP cameras

boyheadkick™

Sent from my RootBox powered Acro S using Tap-Tap-Tapatalk
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] deedwar:
The site tabs are because of the fact that in hybrid settings it is set to 600 change it to 360 and it should be fine. The message app i might look into. Themes is something worth including.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] drumcodex:
Now that you mention theme, Ive just tried to upgrade this to your Newest release, did you now include the miui theme in theme chooser? Thanks for the hybrid tip.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] deedwar:
Yeah i was testing something out and forgot to remove it. I like the theme but i want to leave the option up to the user so will remove on next release.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] drumcodex:
ah ok thats why it suddenly was there, and cant be uninstalled :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] drumcodex:
Any one else have huge battery drain with this rom?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] xyrovice:
I really hope not.

My battery with SlimBean 8.1 has been phenomenal. Thank you deedwar! Deep sleep almost always. No wakelock issues.

It just works

.

I'm ready to jump over to RootBox...unless battery performance took a hit. Any info appreciated.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] deedwar:
I really have no idea about battery I tend to use my phone a lot while I test and it always hits it big time anyhow.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] boyheadkick:
Has anybody tried installing the GE 4.3 camera and test if the freeze bug happens with it?

Edit : GE camera works except Photoshpere fc's and1080p video lags..

boyheadkick™

Sent from my RootBox powered Acro S using Tap-Tap-Tapatalk

edit2:

i got it too..sadly this is the reason why i left PAC and switched back to stock..i ran this rom for 3 days and it left me frustrated with battery life, it was like the phone was not going to deep sleep..i was doing all i can, greenified my user apps, always checked wakelock detector, even with Operation Killjoy the battery was still draining..sadly im going back to stock again :(
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] deedwar:
It is a shame some people seem to experience these battery drain issues. I managed to get 10.2 to build so I will push out beanstalk 4.3 as soon as I figure out what is wrong with recovery it just won't work. If anyone knows how to get recovery to work on 10.2 can you fire me a pm. Cheers.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] drumcodex:
That just sounds fantastic.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] teddy0209:
Even other devices forums, their saying recovery is not working well... Maybe an update from the developer of recovery will solve the problem...

Edit:

Have you tried the latest twrp for xs in the twrp website? Just maybe that would work...
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] deedwar:
Yeah mate thanks for the suggestions. Been there tried that. I'm sure Raymanfx knows what is happening. It will be in the device source files I think I just don't have a reference to work from will keep looking at git hub sources till I find something that works
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] xyrovice:
Really impressed with your ambition deedwar! Talk of a 10.2 build makes me really excited- mostly because of how much time and work you devote to your ROMs. Bugs will always be present, but I feel very confident with your ROMs on my xacros. Looking forward to any updates.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] deedwar:
Figured out a fix. Compiling as I type will post in about 12 hours assuming all goes well while I sleep. And I have a quick test. Running it now with the previous recovery free build and all seems to work fine.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] winsonlam:
My USB port is not working with the rom:eek:

i think its kernel issue
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] PurlingNayuki:
Seems a very nice one, but will remain Slim8.1 till the JB4.3 update.

Sent from my Xperia acro S
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] teddy0209:
Deedwar has manage to make a Beanstalk 4.3 which is free to try, though he hasn't officially released it yet...
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] deedwar:
You have to disable USB debugging in developer options for it to work.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] deedwar:
That is right it is in my goo.im account but i dont want to release anything officially till there is a bit of a slowdown in the 10.2 source code for the kernel by raymanfx. I made a couple of changes that fixed a few issues that made it usable but it isnt something i like to officially release because i dont really want bug reports just yet. Too much happening.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] irieKEN:
I am having battery life issues with RootBox-JB-hikari-Unofficial-20130910; it will only occasionally go into deep sleep, and spends most of its time a the minimum clock (set to 192MHz). 77% of battery usage is taken up by the Kernel, and the phone will occasionally get hot while sitting on its own.

I am also having charging issues while charging from a USB wall charger; when the phone goes to sleep, it will stop charging. I also saw this behavior start with FXP 235, when they updated the kernel.

The rest of the ROM is very slick and stable (even if overclocked to 1728MHz), and I am hoping that Deedwar can find some time to work on it.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] deedwar:
I have noticed that deep sleep does seem to be a problem. In the last 5 hours and 30 mins only 40 mins of that is in deep sleep and that is with me using my phone very little. Must be a process that is playing up i will keep an eye on it. Been a bit busy with work and the 10.2 kernel but still working on fixes.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Puckying:
Nice rom

I am eagerly awaiting the update and have found one quite annoying bug. Whenever I am playing music and a notification comes in it will do a soft reboot. No big deal as I can turn off data and wifi but still not very practical.