[Replicant] Hardware/Physical and Software Security

TIM Safiqul Amin timsafiq at ualberta.ca
Thu Aug 3 18:47:05 UTC 2017


Hello everyone,

I hope you are good.

As we know, hardware/physical security is very important. By hardware
or physical security I mean things like removing the built-in
microphone(s), removing the camera, or, even the modem etc.

And by software security, I mean using full disk encryption on a
device. As far as I know, Android/Replicant uses the same passphrase
for unlocking the screen lock and also the full disk encryption.

My question is what are your plans on documenting these things. For
example, how to remove microphone(s) for each supported/recommended
device, and/or how to use two separate passphrases -- one for
decrypting the fully encrypted disk and one for unlocking the screen.

I believe this kind of articles/wikis/documentations are going be
enormously helpful and beneficial for other people. I would like to
know what are your thoughts on that.

Thank you very much for your time and attention.

--
TIM Safiqul Amin
BSc Honors Student
Computing Science
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta,
Canada.


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