Google provides play integrity API for app integrity protection in android applications. But, since Google is not available in China region, then what are the alternative APIs for integrity protection for Android apps in China (Huawei, Baidu, Vivo, Xiaomi, Oppo, etc)?
I found alternative API for Huawei which is SysIntegrity API (https://developer.huawei.com/consum...ides/dysintegritydevelopment-0000001050156331), but I want to know about the availability of similar APIs in Baidu and other stores as well.
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I just read this news and honestly it really is worrying since Huawei faced with the accusation of spying, can someone with tech savvy skill confirm on this?
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https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3697098
It's crazy [emoji32]. It remembers me the same thing happened with ZTE mobile phones.
Reading the article, for someone who purports to be an "IT Engineer" and "skilled in computers, cellphones, and data networks," he is remarkably ill informed about how network applications, systems and mobile device systems and software work. After the most cursory of glances at the article
Captive Portal Login...................................................…….This appears to be linked to authenticating to the device for cloud accounts such as Gmail
Huawei.hivoice..................................................................…..Required to use the voice from the cellphone system
Huawei.mobile.services .............................................…..Required to use the data from the cellphone system
Huawei search index and services..................…….Literally EVERY operating system has a search index system built in to work
Exchange Services............................................................…..Outlook email app installed and probably in use
Files...................................................................................................….It's called looking at the files system
Google Backup Services................................................…..It's called Google, you know, the owners of Android
Google Play Services...................................................…......It's called Google, you know, the owners of Android
Google Services Framework.......................................….It's called Google, you know, the owners of Android
Package installer.........................................................................Again....Google else how do you look for, install and update apps?
System update........................................................................….Oh no!!! Updates.....To the system...!!!!!
IP addresses...shock horror, various companies use the Amazon AWS cloud service to support...... services in the cloud
18.136.136.226:443 Amazon Data Services Singapore
52.76.118.162:443 Amazon Technologies Inc.
3.1.28.223:443 Amazon Data Services Singapore
13.251.217.196:443 Amazon Data Services Singapore
52.77.164.35:5222 Amazon Technologies Inc.
13.229.37.66:5222 Amazon Technologies Inc.
119.23.23.32 Alisoft Computing Co. Ltd. .......................Well, if you browse to Alibaba you're probably going to get a link to their CRM customer assist system
54.171.19.142:443 Amazon Technologies Inc...…………………... Again with the whole cloud based service provider supporting cloud apps, like....the keyboard app you installed
52.209.225.101:443 Amazon Data Services Ireland Limited
I could continue but plainly the idiot who reported this to Taiwan News and the idiot who wrote the article and the idiot who provided editorial approval are all idiots.
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Reading the article, for someone who purports to be an "IT Engineer" and "skilled in computers, cellphones, and data networks," he is remarkably ill informed...idiot who wrote the article and the idiot who provided editorial approval are all idiots.
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Are there smartphones being more secure than others?
For example, smartphones that are very (or completely) open source including the hardware.
Smartphones that allow access to the GSM/GPRS/3G/4G/LTE system in debug mode.
Smartphones without Google Apps, with MicroG instead - that already exists, a Custom ROM without GAPPS with MicroG - I like it.
With regards to security smartphones ( what are nothing else than a conglomerate of metal, plastic, glass, chips, circuit boards, etc.pp ) don't differ.
Google's Android OS by default is Open Source: Hence everyone can modify it, will say take it as a base to create a Custom ROM when deemed to be necessary. The drivers - the software that lets the OS and a device's hardware components communicate with each other - mostly aren't Open Source. The built-in hardware never will be Open Source.
If you think you want to run an Android based smartphone without GApps ( the bundle of apps and services provided by Google like Google Play Store, Google+, Google Books, Google Maps, Gmail, YouTube and others, what all aren't Open Source ) you can of course do so.
BTW: The microG project is "a free software clone of Google's proprietary core libraries and applications". To be more specific, it is a FLOSS (Free / Libre Open Source Software) box that allows apps designed for Google Play Services to run on Android systems where Google Play Services is unavailable.
Does anyone know of a replacement for Huawei Mobile Services, that would allow to use for instance the Health app without requiring a Huawei ID?
I have a Huawei Band 4 and the fitness band doesn't work without such app. Such app doesn't work without HMS. HMS requires you to login with a Huawei ID. I find this awful and I'm looking for alternatives.
P.S. there is an app on F-Droid called GadgetBridge which supports several types of fitness bands, but my Huawei Band 4 is not in the list. It needs a certain auth key in order to work with the device, and I don't have a clue how to get it, as all instructions are for Mi Band 4.
There was an RE effort, which resulted in a test GB version supporting Huawei devices. More info can be found here: https://codeberg.org/Freeyourgadget/Gadgetbridge/pulls/2462 .