Category: Apps Android Smart Phone

Update: USB 3.0 can interfere with WiFi “USB 3.0 has a 5Gbps signaling rate. The USB 3.0 specification requires USB 3.0 data to be scrambled and it requires spread-spectrum. The noise from USB 3.0 data spectrum can be high (in […]

really don’t understand how a SoC with 3GB of RAM (!) and a 8x Core ARM can be put to the bin (as Debian GNU Linux runs on devices with as little as 1GB RAM and 2x Cores) because there […]

Outlook hacked by receiving an email – fax machine – hacked by receiving a fax – Android SmartPhones hacked by vieweing a picture.png (it’s a bug in the Framework/SDK) – “great” whats next?Will SmartPhones and “THE INTERNET” be doomed “unsafe” […]

with security there is no “done” it can be clearly seen that: the amounts of it-security problems is increasing of course there is no 100% security with state-actors playing “hot” “cold war” in cyberspace private-spy-companies developing exploits that then leak […]

2024 simdiscount.de update: [+] soweit alles okay, auch roaming innerhalb von EU funktioniert wunderbar 🙂 [-]: der schriftliche support liest keine nachrichten oder versteht diese nicht, antwortet entweder mit vorlagen oder mit leeren antworten Wenn man den Vertrag wechseln möchte […]

2020-12: another reason why JavaScript SUCKS badly and websites NEED TO WORK without JS: it might “destroy” NAT security: NAT Slipstreaming allows an attacker to remotely access any TCP/UDP service bound to a victim machine, bypassing the victim’s NAT/firewall (arbitrary […]

Update: 2019-09: das ende von Drillisch Fax Drillisch Fax: 06181 7074 063 (reicht aber evtl für Kündigung nicht aus, vermutlich wird es ohne Einschreiben nicht gehen) Seit über einem Monat, keine Mobilen Daten (weder 2G (EDGE) noch 3G(UMTS) noch 4G(LTE)) […]

a sofa/couch: considered “completely normal” in Japan and called: “Inemuri,” the Japanese Art of Taking Power Naps at Work, on the Subway, and Other Public Places a table socker table! (2:2, 1:2, 2:1, max 4 players) alternatives: this would be […]

Your mobile phone is giving away your approximate location all day long. This isn’t exactly a secret: It has to share this data with your mobile provider constantly to provide better call quality and to route any emergency 911 calls […]

  one was running CyanogenMod “Beanstalk” on Samsung Galaxy S3 (i9300) for the last 2-3 years and it worked pretty well, but after a while (and a lot of Apps) it becomes unreliable/unstable. (but that is with all systems that […]

Crowd funding platforms are great – i love em. They actually do what Banks are supposed to do – get the money where it can build great products and foster innovation. problem: as more and more money flows through crowdfunding […]

2018-04: RISC-V CPUs not affected by spectre & meltdown “No announced RISC-V silicon is susceptible, and the popular open-source RISC-V Rocket processor is unaffected as it does not perform memory accesses speculatively.” (2018-01-05 src) “If you’re selling an IoT sensor […]

“Thinking is hard work and not worth the effort” (The Love Police) Ever wondered why WhatsApp is for free? It is a self-surveillance tool. Phones with closed-source wifi drivers are cheap. Because to know the last detail about you – […]

LibreSignal is like Signal – the private WhatsApp and SMS service – but without using requirement for GooglePlay. So people with alterntive firmwares on their phones (CyanogenMod) can use it as well. Is it a fake alternative that started off […]

MicroKernel for mobile devices? LK (Little Kernel) is a tiny operating system suited for small embedded devices, bootloaders, and other environments where OS primitives like threads, mutexes, and timers are needed, but there’s a desire to keep things small and […]

NSO Group – Wikipedia Type Private Industry Computer security Founded 2010; 7 years ago Founders Niv Carmi Omri Lavie Shalev Hulio Headquarters Herzliya, Israel Key people Shalev Hulio (CEO)[1] Products Pegasus Owner Francisco Partners (70%) Omri Lavie Shalev Hulio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSO_Group Proxy […]

WhatsApp backdoor allows snooping on encrypted messages WhatsApp = Facebook pretends to protect your privacy with a faulty implementation of the OpenWhisper-System-Encryption. “Steffen Tor Jensen, head of information security and digital counter-surveillance at the European-Bahraini Organisation for Human Rights, verified […]

STATUS: BROKEN! this program used to work with test files in 2016, but just tested it and it does not work. you can give it a try… but most likely it will not return what you want. will have to […]

UPDATE: I am testing this firmware since 3 months and it is pretty good. Better than previous versions. LANDSCAPE PICTURE IS BACK! YEAH! you might want to check what is latest unofficial from: https://www.androidfilehost.com/?a=show&w=files&flid=55224 I am testing this latest “UNOFFICIAL” […]

2021: update! the old Mumble App (Plumble) does not work well with Android v10 and higher. luckily, someone made an updated version called “Mumla”: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/se.lublin.mumla/ backup: https://dwaves.de/software/apps/Mumla_se.lublin.mumla.zip (sha512sum: e3d9f366a1c3895e24c051a96f6114a30d89713e3098de77a7716ff9187b0b47db58b98eaca3386ddfd09433cd3f1a3aa5a1e29043cb9d40cb280d966852b42e) (tested and works with LineageOS 17 / Android 10) what is great […]

You will neet to open a terminal (you might need to install an App like ConnectBot) prompt and copy and paste this into it: (Android 5.1 / Cyanogen 12.1 worked and tested) cat /data/misc/wifi/wpa_supplicant.conf

who/what to trust in 2022? it’s hard… “A February 2020 research report published by the School of Computer Science and Statistics at Trinity College Dublin tested six browsers and deemed Brave to be the most private of them, in terms […]

it ain’t quiet easy… you can not start android sdk manager out of adt-enabled eclipse or start it from command line: (this applies to Android Studio and Eclipse) so you have to find it yourself. the default location would be: […]

Updates from CryptoCat “With great user data comes great responsibility.” (src) it has become a desktop app… not a firefox plugin. https://crypto.cat/ Checkout the video from it’s creator (thanks for all your efforts! 🙂 https://youtu.be/n7MHWuppPSo developer’s site : https://nadim.computer/ Sind […]

  You can get this ALL FREE APPS from https://f-droid.org/ https://sufficientlysecure.org/index.php/android-apps/  

Inside VirtualBox i can play CounterStrike… but it seems to not be possible to get the Android-Device Emulator to work… because of missing hardware accleration.   What you will need: 1. android studio bundle: https://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html direct link: https://dl.google.com/dl/android/studio/install/1.2.2.0/android-studio-bundle-141.1980579-windows.exe 2. Oracle […]

This is an unfinished article… it seems like Android Studio is focusing a lot on Windows and not on Linux. (strange enough Android is a Linux operation system) If you run Android Studio Device Emulation (which you will want to […]

if possible (hardware support) please use replicant, not cyanogen – it might fix this backdoor: https://dwaves.de/2017/05/01/the-problem-with-closed-source-drivers/ successor to cyanogen mod: LineageOS: https://download.lineageos.org/i9300 All i9300 users: -> https://dwaves.de/2016/06/29/alternative-firmware-for-samsung-i9300-android-6-0-1-beanstalk-6-18-20160624-i9300-seems-to-work-pretty-well/ <- testing: i tested the ROM since 2 Months now and i have […]

if you have no speech output during navigation if it says “speech package not installed” falls Sie keine Sprachausgabe bei der Navigation mit OSM haben bzw. die Meldung kommt: “sprachpaket wurde nicht installiert” then you should go into map management […]

Update: 2020-05 PDF are important file formats for document exchange, but in 2020 PDF as Mail-Attachments can not be 100% trusted anymore. how to create PDF under Linux? there are various programs that support export to PDF format least but […]