[Security Discussion] unclefab:
Sigh, you seem not to have read OP past the first lines of the first chapter:eek:.

Ok, I try again, but that's the last attempt...

Cool...

That said, my stock rom doesn't connect anywhere either, and to get to that result I haven't relied on anyone but me. Which means that I know now how to do it on my own, much better than relying on someone else to my opinion.

Anyway, you are free to be a cm fanboy, but you have to know that cm isn't the pure white knight you think it is.

There has been many stories of data usage tracking, google analytics etc., I don't have time to search the net for you but you can start with this:

https://blogs.fsfe.org/torsten.grot...everses-decision-still-uses-google-analytics/

Funny, isn't it?

I don't know the current state, but in my language we say:

"liar one day, liar allways".

So long cm, and enjoy the money you took to oneplus one:eek:

Regarding omnia, I remember a thread I made on this forum when the first omnia roms got launched.

I said :

An omnia dev replied:

I thought, how strange that they don't even know about such issues? At this time I hadn't heard about firewall scripts yet so I asked the guy:

Guess what? The guy never replied, and as for me I was done with omnia.

Anyway, what are custom roms?

They are based on google's source code, and the "enhancements" they offer compared to stock rom are actually easily done if one knows a bit about apktool/modding, or even more easily with Xposed modules, and one learns something in the process.

You are free to rely on custom roms though...;)

Mmmmh, I think you are on the wrong forum, here it's Android, not apple, and those apps can't do what they want.

One can check their processes, one can check whether they connect to the internet or not (and thanks to AF+Plus, that is open source BTW, they can't) and which data they access (thanks to Xprivacy, another open source app), and one can hibernate them or force close them (on my phone I click twice on the menu and the app is hibernated, without using Greenify) and check that they aren't running.

Isn't that enough?

At least one of the vulnerabilities in your link is of the master key breed, and most other vulnerabilities (except one or two) only work if one has installed a doddgy app or opened a nasty sms through WAP push (WAP is anyway uninstalled if one has followed OP).

If you are the type of guy that installs apps from shaddy sources, and that clicks on any link on any sms that promises to increase your d...k's size to 25 inches then I agree, you should stick to later Android versions.

But as for me I'm not that type of guy, and anyway, what are those bad apps using those vulnerabilities we are talking about?

They are a few nasty bits, flooded amongst millions of Android apps on board over one billion Android devices, and those nasty bits account for something like 0.01%.

Again, I don't have time to search the net for you about it, but since i'm a good uncle here's a link to start with:

http://www.greenbot.com/article/214...-is-on-android-but-good-luck-catching-it.html

OTOH, google's tracking on Android is on 100 % of newly bought smartphones and wifi tablets, and its tracking becomes more and more sophisticated and harder and harder to remove as the Android version rises.

Then one has to ask oneself what one chooses.

0.01% (actually even less if one only installs from trusted sources and doesn't click on 25 inches offer sms') or 100%?

Note that I took the time to write a long post to explain you about those matters, so if you still don't want to understand and have nothing to add privacy wise as the others did (tips, settings, questions etc.) then I suggest you to go somewhere else, thanks...