[Replicant] [PATCH] Disable phone number lookup by default for privacy
Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
GNUtoo at cyberdimension.org
Wed Jan 2 15:28:53 UTC 2019
Hi,
On Tue, 1 Jan 2019 20:15:20 +0100
Fil <fil.bergamo at riseup.net> wrote:
> On 12/30/2018 04:01 PM, Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli wrote:
> >> When applied, the patch causes the following behaviour:
> >> (...)
> > How did you test that? (...)
>
> I've performed some additional in-depth analysis on the subject.
> I thoroughly documented it in the tracker [1].
> TL;DR: I confirm that disabling lookup services in the settings is
> enough to prevent network traffic towards third-party online services.
That is really good news.
I've not been able to test the patch at runtime as I've some issues with
certificates generation for signing the image[1] but the patch looks
good, so: Acked-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo at cyberdimension.org>
I'll push it soon.
References:
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[1]I really don't want to work around that in the build system because
thanks to that, I can now test the patches that are supposed to
improve the situation with certificates generation.
Denis.
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