[Replicant] android/iOS privacy comparison

Fil Lupin fillupin at protonmail.com
Mon Oct 25 15:04:31 UTC 2021


I'll read more and can tell you then. However, I need a few weeks since I'm note sure when I'll have time for this.

It seems they use a man in the middle attack to disable cellular network on the phone and force to use a computer to connect to network, which decrypt and then encrypt the traffic to the destination.

- Fil Lupin.

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On Monday, October 25th, 2021 at 2:54 PM, Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo at cyberdimension.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 25 Oct 2021 08:20:44 +0000
>
> Fil Lupin via Replicant replicant at osuosl.org wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > here is an article relating a comparison between android and iOS
> >
> > privacy : https://www.tomsguide.com/news/android-ios-data-collection
> >
> > Here is the research paper about this:
> >
> > https://www.scss.tcd.ie/doug.leith/apple_google.pdf
> >
> > I'm not sure it could be placed in the forum, perhaps in security ?
>
> That could work, though I'm probably not the best person to comment on
>
> that since I very rarely look at the forum.
>
> We also have a page on the wiki to add links about research[1].
>
> If someone read it, it would also be nice to add a summary about it.
>
> Knowing what issues iOS and Android phones with Google Play have is
>
> relevant at least for advocacy and the "Freedom Privacy and Security"
>
> page[2].
>
> What might also be interesting to know is if there are things that are
>
> directly applicable to the Replicant source code, like for instance the
>
> methodology to find out how the data is transmitted, or if there are
>
> indications that AOSP (not Google play) could have issues.
>
> Reference:
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> [1]https://redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/wiki/AcademicPapersAndPresentations
>
> [2]http://www.replicant.us/freedom-privacy-security-issues.php
>
> Denis.


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