Recent content by asogzx

Here's a small followup. Before I start, I would like to point out again that installing Google Play services on Cyanogenmod kills the extra privacy or at least diminishes it greatly. starting from Cyanogenmod 11 Privacy Guard was integrated into the system. It is a protection mechanism based...

"Machine code" is compiled software. There's a "box" called a compiler, which consumes human-readable code and spits out "Machine readable code" called "machine code" which humans can't read easily. Reversing the process is not practical. Machine code is not hardware.

Yes, Firefox is a work in progress. Android is very mature and stable.

I may have been a bit unclear regarding cooperations. Yes, a cooperation may and does spy on you illegaly and the NSA revelations have proven so beyond doubt. What I'm saying is that planting a HARDWARE backdoor is rather pointless for a company because 99.9% of the people are being spied on...

Google's Privacy Policy is pretty explicit, they say “we track you and spy on you” although the words are a bit spiced up and the privacy policy is long on purpose so that most people won't bother reading it. Here's a spiced-up version of "we scan your mails" Source...

Update guys! I found a great alternative for Playstore (Please read my first post first) https://f-droid.org/ It has only open source software. Not using Google Play has never been easier.

The consensus in this post is wrong. Cyanogenmod offers a lot more privacy. It doesn't send anything at all unless you opt in for usage statistics and/or network based location and/or you install an extra app which does send your data to its remote servers. On the contrary, the default Android...