Wow, that sounds awful. Even more of a reason for me to find a phone without Android
Sounds like the average Windows 98 system infested with Russian trojans because you used too many no-cd cracks.
Amazingly the antivirus software couldn't clean them out. They were updated too slowly and trojans dna mutated on a weekly basis. It required that you erm, had the trojan controller software and used self-host-clean functions. Yes - be frenemies with the virus makers.
Maybe Google are just being honest.
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And, eventually, the Gemini might be that phone once Linux is up, running and happy. Or, potentially with Sailfish OS soon.
What Google is doing with pushing their applications onto the Android phone base is getting pretty overbearing. I have a single game with roughly $300 wrapped up in content (Pinball Arcade) that I can't seem to play without getting stuck with a gamerID I don't want and a Google Hangouts account that I really don't want. Meanwhile Google Assistant keeps trying to take over. Keeping my relationship with Google contained to just the things I actually want from Google is becoming a challenge.
If you want some absolutely foolproof advice, use IRC and telnet servers. Nothing else.
Morons move with the crowd. Go back a few gens and the morons aren't there. Meaning... if you get hacked or exploited, that's to be expected.
[doublepost=1526593243][/doublepost]Also, based on the 'passion' between Psion and BT the Gemeni is likely to do illegal things on the GSM network which can end up police turning up at your house. And the neural net or other hijacked components run them... later on down the line. Like in 2 years, auto activated as trojan.
You'll end up blacklisted from owning a mobile. Don't say I didn't warn you. Putting a sim in the Gemini is probably not a good idea. Anything more is slander. So maybe it was Russians who hate on Psion. Or North Korea... defs. Yeah.
[doublepost=1526604129][/doublepost]Speaking about this subject in a more serious manner...
Russian hackers are of course an existential threat to Linux in general. Pretty much everyone is aware of this, and while we don't publish it much they do on a regular basis sabotage software repos and introduce bugs into source code we assumed was fine. Even the kernel itself. And ED himself will know just much upkeep it is to have to keep ourselves secure, and how much it slows down projects. Wether or not this is one of the major issues behind Pyra progress is something you have to be careful discussing in public.
The same is true for white hat phreaking tools. Of course we all want to secure the gsm network, make it more robust. Know for sure that we don't have any major threats to our way of life. I mean, without trying to sound like Bill Clinton here, we do in actual fact want to know our children are safe. It is, if we're honest, why we encouraged them to have a mobile phone in the first place. It wasn't Crazy Frog or java games.
So even our own security tools can be used against us. Which is why we have open source! And why we have Linux and honest Joe outfits like OpenPandora who don't make comprimises or take shortcuts with the safety of our families - wow, starting to sound like Tony Blair now - but when you think it out, ED is in actual fact a family man in this sense, and a guy you can actually trust to do things the right way, and not take risks.
So when you look at it like this, more eyeballs on code is always the FOSS moto. We all make mistakes. Surely in the spirit of such things the excellent devs in this community can help a great deal ensuring this stuff works as well as possible. And we know we're safe then - in a double sure check under the bed for monsters way. It does in all seriousness make the kids feel better knowing this sort of thing. But I do see a problem with this, since the server costs involved of hosting quite that many os image revisions for audit? The cost of securing this data too in addition to the code itself? It's the sort of thing we need to really buddy up on. So we're on the same side and that. Perhaps then a small discount for the Gemeni units in exchange for this communities amazing Debian expertise. And of course it goes without saying, the exact same thing works both ways. GSM code from the genius brit guys, straight onto the German Pyra. Full credits to the authors and everything. Perhaps even a full faq on the guys involved! A meetup! With photographs! All that hand shaking milestone stuff of olde i just know Psion miss. The good old days. Make it happen... You can be great again. We belive in you.
