Re: Privacy Concerns with UbuntuPhone

It's probably got a lot to do with contention control, on wireless
networks with varying coverage and multiple mobile devices it is
very hard to achieve. If you know what you're doing you can get
more than your fair share of bandwidth from the basestation you're
registered to, or jam it, or jam it intermittently if you want to
be annoying. If you don't know what you're doing and adjust the
contention control on your device you could jam it rendering the
basestation useless for other users. The companies that spend 10s
of millions installing this kit nationwide will never want people to
be able to fiddle with this, they depend on their subscribers
income. This will be a big part of the code they are worried
about, perhaps this has already been said. Rob

On 23/04/2014 4:35 p.m., Robin Sheat
wrote:

Thomi Richards schreef op di 22-04-2014 om 17:48 [+1200]:

Welllllll..... I'm still not convinced that a totally open source
software stack would give us any more real security or privacy than we
already have, for two main reasons.

It can't hurt, and it may help. At the least, it can aid in preventing
the sort of abuses that closed source software can have:

http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/04/easter-egg-dsl-router-patch-merely-hides-backdoor-instead-of-closing-it/

I would argue that it is able to provide _better_ security for me as an
end user, while being aware that virtually nothing is perfect.

Robin.

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