From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu May 16 16:43:08 2019 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69920159E872 for ; Thu, 16 May 2019 16:43:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu) Received: from kicp.uchicago.edu (kicp.uchicago.edu [128.135.20.70]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D41898BD1B for ; Thu, 16 May 2019 16:43:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu) Received: from point.uchicago.edu (point.uchicago.edu [128.135.52.6]) by kicp.uchicago.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EF9D718049 for ; Thu, 16 May 2019 11:43:07 -0500 (CDT) Subject: Re: OT: android phone backup NOT to google cloud question To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20190516100114.fcb08b7ba3ac1b5b5f16ed1c@sohara.org> <20190516151627.8787997de9bbb56161b68bff@sohara.org> From: Valeri Galtsev Message-ID: Date: Thu, 16 May 2019 11:43:07 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.6.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20190516151627.8787997de9bbb56161b68bff@sohara.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: D41898BD1B X-Spamd-Bar: - Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dmarc=fail reason="" header.from=uchicago.edu (policy=none) X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-1.06 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-0.86)[-0.856,0]; DMARC_POLICY_SOFTFAIL(0.10)[uchicago.edu : No valid SPF, No valid DKIM,none]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-0.91)[-0.913,0]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; PREVIOUSLY_DELIVERED(0.00)[freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]; TO_DN_NONE(0.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; IP_SCORE(-0.01)[country: US(-0.06)]; NEURAL_SPAM_SHORT(0.63)[0.627,0]; MX_GOOD(-0.01)[cached: kicp.uchicago.edu]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[70.20.135.128.list.dnswl.org : 127.0.10.0]; R_SPF_NA(0.00)[]; RCVD_NO_TLS_LAST(0.10)[]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; ASN(0.00)[asn:160, ipnet:128.135.0.0/16, country:US]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 May 2019 16:43:08 -0000 On 2019-05-16 09:16, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > On Thu, 16 May 2019 08:46:21 -0500 > Valeri Galtsev wrote: > >> Hm. Just went whole way: wiped it and flashed LineageOS. Though google > > Not a bad move at all. > >> code is still there in binary only "blob" of kernel, and likely in >> proprietary binary drivers and components firmware, it feels good for >> the moment. > > Barring unusual competence the kernel is most likely the stock open > source Android (ie. Linux) kernel with a bunch of proprietary drivers Yes, but if my memory serves me, apart from binary proprietary device drives android kernel based on Linux kernel contains big chunk of google proprietary code which no one would dare to reverse engineer to publish what in general it does. (or they will end up in: # - prison). That is what I meant. Valeri > for > the chip set developed under NDA with the chipset maker - but it's compiled > so you can't be sure of course. > -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++