{"id":1093,"date":"2016-11-17T12:50:02","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T10:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.mcgill.org.za\/stuff\/?p=1093"},"modified":"2016-11-17T12:52:19","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T10:52:19","slug":"invasion-of-the-evil-androids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcgill.org.za\/stuff\/archives\/1093","title":{"rendered":"Invasion of the evil androids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google says you are too stupid to rule your own life.\u00a0 They say this by their Android phone operating system, in which they do <em>not <\/em>give you, the owner and operator of the device, root permissions.\u00a0 This means:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You cannot remove rubbish you don&#8217;t want.<\/li>\n<li>You cannot install software of your choice<\/li>\n<li>You cannot resolve problems that bother you<\/li>\n<li>You submit to the decisions of your superiors<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>However, there is a group of elite people who are not limited in this way:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Google<\/li>\n<li>The phone vendor<\/li>\n<li>The software suppliers to the phone vendor<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These people are better and smarter than you.\u00a0 They know how to run your life.\u00a0 While you cannot make decisions, they can make decisions.\u00a0 A few of these decisions are to deliberately open up your phone to their own prying eyes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Xiaomi: <span class=\"main-article-info\">AnalyticsCore<\/span>.apk can install anything it likes on your phone, and you cannot make it go away.<\/li>\n<li>Samsung: modem radio chip backdoor can read and write any of your files for any reason.<\/li>\n<li>Every Chinese Android phone ever: Shanghai Adups Technology Co. Ltd over-the-air update manager phones home with all your personal data: your SMS&#8217;s, your contact list.\u00a0 Trust?\u00a0 What&#8217;s that?\u00a0 You run our software, and we put your contacts and SMS&#8217;s in our databases forever.\u00a0 You don&#8217;t like that?\u00a0 Well, you don&#8217;t matter.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So Google said they would <strong>be less evil<\/strong> but when they denied root to the little man, and gave it to the vendor instead, they sold out the little man to the vendor.\u00a0 The vendor or his suppliers is a lying weasel in the pay of the communist party, and he makes money on the side by selling your device and information to the most convenient bidder.\u00a0 He&#8217;s often enough just a branch of the communist party.<\/p>\n<p>So here&#8217;s the solution:<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t buy Google&#8217;s phone until you at least get root with it.\u00a0 You cannot trust these people.\u00a0 They are evil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google says you are too stupid to rule your own life.\u00a0 They say this by their Android phone operating system, in which they do not give you, the owner and operator of the device, root permissions.\u00a0 This means: You cannot &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcgill.org.za\/stuff\/archives\/1093\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[140,23,58,37,50,33,17,16,190],"class_list":["post-1093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","tag-android","tag-google","tag-hacks","tag-linux","tag-morality","tag-networking","tag-rants","tag-security","tag-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgill.org.za\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgill.org.za\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgill.org.za\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgill.org.za\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgill.org.za\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1093"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgill.org.za\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1095,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgill.org.za\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093\/revisions\/1095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgill.org.za\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgill.org.za\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgill.org.za\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}