Hi<div><br></div><div>There is a list were we can find the "safest" SmartPhones in the market? I thought Android was a safe OS for mobile devices.<br><div><br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 4:06 AM, john francis lee <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jfl@robinlea.com">jfl@robinlea.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Same thing goes for android phones. Google is very big on collecting<br>
EVERYTHING, and selling it. And location is a very saleable item.<br>
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On 04/21/2011 02:51:42 PM, Osama Khalid wrote:<br>
> The first thing that came to my mind when I read about iPhone's<br>
> tracking ability[0] was what Eben Moglen said in his keynote in<br>
> FOSDEM<br>
> just a couple of months ago:<br>
><br>
> > Friends of ours, people seeking freedom, are going to get arrested,<br>
> > beaten, tortured, and eventually killed somewhere on earth because<br>
> > they’re depending for their political survival in their movements<br>
> > for freedom on technology we know is built to sell them out.<br>
> ><br>
> > I don’t want anybody taking life or death risks to make freedom<br>
> > somewhere carrying an iPhone. Because I know what the iPhone can be<br>
> > doing to him without our having any way to control it, stop it,<br>
> help<br>
> > it, or even know it is going on.<br>
><br>
> I feel very bad for those activists in the Arab world (and everywhere<br>
> else) who may be in great danger because of these records.<br>
><br>
> Yet another reason why we should work very hard on making the<br>
> Freedombox<br>
> real, deployable and easy-to-use.<br>
><br>
> [0]: <a href="http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/04/apple-location-tracking.html" target="_blank">http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/04/apple-location-tracking.html</a><br>
><br>
> --Osama Khalid<br>
><br>
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