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1. Android is the most popular mobile platform in the world, with a wide
variety of applications, including many applications that aid in
communications security, censorship circumvention, and activist
organization. Moreover, the core of the Android platform is Open Source,
auditable, and modifiable by anyone. Unfortunately though, mobile devices in general and Android devices in
particular have not been designed with privacy in mind. In fact, they've
seemingly been designed with nearly the opposite goal: to make it easy
for third parties, telecommunications companies, sophisticated
state-sized adversaries, and even random hackers to extract all manner
of personal information from the user. This includes the full content of
personal communications with business partners and loved ones. Worse
still, by default, the user is given very little in the way of control
or even informed consent about what information is being collected and
how.
2. This presentation brings out few basic steps that every android phone
user should configure to harden his/her device.Although the list is not completely exhaustive but it brings out basic necessities as expected
from any smart user.
