Android

If you glance around my computer museum (I mean office) you will see the following mobile devices: WebOS Maemo Android PalmOS Blackberry (no 10 devices yet) WinCE (don’t ask) And up until a few years ago many an iOS device scattered around. Part of my job is learning what the latest and greatest is capable of and implementing for my customers. It was after helping one of them recently that I realized my iOS knowledge was becoming a little dated and as such I found myself in the Schiphol Airport paying way too much for a Retina iPad Mini 32GiB. ...

Google News is full of articles on the pro’s and con’s of the new application, Color. Overall it is a pretty dumb application if you ask me, but it does show that the onslaught of “hyper local” social networks is coming soon. What started as a way to actually test the Color app showcased how much fun it would be to check-in to places. Steps to GPS spoof: ...

Most of the folks using the GE Simon XT for their home security systems are amazed that they can use their Android, iPhone, or Blackberry to remotely lock their homes. I was curious as to what was actually being passed. I loaded my OpenWRT router with tcpdump and did some basic dumps on a br0 interface to see what all was being passed. A few quick points: ...

There is a skit on SNL Weekend Update where Seth and Amy read the headline to a news story with one of them following the other with “Really?!” That is my reaction every time I begin to think about mobile phone security. The darlings of our open-source world, the ones us geeks carry around on our belts, well…they fall short. In light of the police now being able to search your phone without a warrant, I decided to do a blog post on how-to protect yourself. Now I find myself asking the giants of Tech, REALLY!? Lets run through the major mobile phone platforms and see which ones encrypt data: ...

In my continuation of howto secure your phone habits while on the go, we have come to anonymizing your traffic. There are a few reasons to do this: On a public internet network and have no access to a VPN In a country that censors the internet (Hi China!) You like to keep your identity somewhat off the grid for whatever reason TOR was developed to allow for all of the above. Due to the open nature of Android and the user-base, it was quickly ported back in 2009. The Guardian Project leads the effort and has since provided 4 main components. Today I will be focusing on the Orbot (TOR+Proxy) and the Firefox extension to allow proxy usage. In addition you can use their Jabber client for anonymous and encrypted chatting. So lets get to setting things up! A few things you need to grab from market: ...