▲ 21 ▼ Closing a Critical Internet Privacy Gap for Billions of Users: Android 17 Rolls Out ECH Support (medium.com) submitted 1 week ago by sanitation@lemmy.today to c/android@lemdro.id 6 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] db2@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 child) Is the backdoor in the open source or a blob? 🤔 permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Turret3857@infosec.pub 7 points 1 week ago (1 child) its not even a backdoor. its just an update to comply with newer DNS standards. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] db2@lemmy.world 1 point 1 week ago (2 children) I'm not sure we're on the same page here. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] one_old_coder@piefed.social 1 point 1 week ago I guess you could use WireShark to check what happens. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Turret3857@infosec.pub 1 point 1 week ago If youre saying they built a backdoor into it, theres no reason to. Anyone could see it in AOSP when it releases. For proprietary builds, they will already be using Google Play Services with admin privileges. GPS already is recording everything you do on your android device. Not to mention, the default encrypted DNS servers are probably Googles. Why include a backdoor when you are the service provider? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Turret3857@infosec.pub 7 points 1 week ago (1 child) its not even a backdoor. its just an update to comply with newer DNS standards. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] db2@lemmy.world 1 point 1 week ago (2 children) I'm not sure we're on the same page here. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] one_old_coder@piefed.social 1 point 1 week ago I guess you could use WireShark to check what happens. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Turret3857@infosec.pub 1 point 1 week ago If youre saying they built a backdoor into it, theres no reason to. Anyone could see it in AOSP when it releases. For proprietary builds, they will already be using Google Play Services with admin privileges. GPS already is recording everything you do on your android device. Not to mention, the default encrypted DNS servers are probably Googles. Why include a backdoor when you are the service provider? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] db2@lemmy.world 1 point 1 week ago (2 children) I'm not sure we're on the same page here. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] one_old_coder@piefed.social 1 point 1 week ago I guess you could use WireShark to check what happens. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Turret3857@infosec.pub 1 point 1 week ago If youre saying they built a backdoor into it, theres no reason to. Anyone could see it in AOSP when it releases. For proprietary builds, they will already be using Google Play Services with admin privileges. GPS already is recording everything you do on your android device. Not to mention, the default encrypted DNS servers are probably Googles. Why include a backdoor when you are the service provider? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] one_old_coder@piefed.social 1 point 1 week ago I guess you could use WireShark to check what happens. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Turret3857@infosec.pub 1 point 1 week ago If youre saying they built a backdoor into it, theres no reason to. Anyone could see it in AOSP when it releases. For proprietary builds, they will already be using Google Play Services with admin privileges. GPS already is recording everything you do on your android device. Not to mention, the default encrypted DNS servers are probably Googles. Why include a backdoor when you are the service provider? permalink fedilink source parent