ubuntu-phone team mailing list archive

[Rodney Dawes <rodney.dawes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The system has support for click packages which cannot be removed by the
user. However, if the phone is plugged in to USB and the Android
development tools are used, then the device can be wiped completely
clean, from underneath the OS. There's nothing we can do about that in
the OS itself right now, and any anti-theft support at that low level
would have to be implemented by the hardware vendors, not necessarily as
part of the Ubuntu OS that runs on the device.

But as far as click packages go, it is perfectly reasonable to have a
pre-installed package that cannot be removed by the user, in normal
operation of the phone. The click package system already supports this.


On Sat, 2014-04-12 at 18:53 -0430, Yasmany Cubela Medina wrote:
> I study the idea of prey but it would be an installed app so if you
> could remove it from your phone there is no protection enymore, i mean
> if the theif could uninstall de app then this solution its no so
> definitive.
> 
> 
> The main idea its to protect the phone(device) from the core main
> code, some service that will be configured at start and can be
> uninstalled form the system, and only let the phone start if there is
> an authorized account in the phone(device)
> 
> S.U.C.C.E.S.S
> Success is a journey, not a destination.
> Ing. Yasmany Cubela Medina:
> Linux user 446757
> Ubuntu user 13464
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 2:11 PM, Daniel Holm <d.holmen@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>         Hi,
>         
>         I've been thinking about this kind of app as well and would
>         very much like one. Since I already use Prey I started there
>         and asked them about an app, but they were not yet interested
>         in making one for Ubuntu Touch.
>         
>         However, as they pointed out, and which already has been
>         discusses, Prey is open source and we could perhaps try to do
>         a port. Start a project and let people that want, participate.
>         
>         An app like this is our course a very much wanted one. I don't
>         want to loose my lovely Ubuntu phone ;)
>         
>         Vänlig hälsning / Yours sincerely,
>            Daniel Holm
>            IT Consultant
>            Web Developer
>            Student, Political Science
>            d.holmen@xxxxxxxxx
>            http://www.danielholm.se
>         
>         Den 11 apr 2014 14:59 skrev "Yasmany Cubela Medina"
>         <yasmanycm@xxxxxxxxx>:
>         
>                 Yes i know about prey and of course we dont need to
>                 reinvent the wheel. deliver prey pre instaled and
>                 configured on ubuntu phone will be a very good
>                 starting point, the main idea its that the phone will
>                 be unsusable if its not unther the first owner
>                 account.
>                 
>                 S.U.C.C.E.S.S
>                 Success is a journey, not a destination.
>                 Ing. Yasmany Cubela Medina:
>                 Linux user 446757
>                 Ubuntu user 13464
>                 
>                 
>                 
>                 On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 7:27 AM, Facundo Batista
>                 <facundo.batista@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>                         Simos Xenitellis escribió (el 11/04/14 08:52):
>                         
>                         >     Did you hear about Pray?
>                         >
>                         >       https://preyproject.com/
>                         >
>                         >
>                         > And to take it a bit further, you are
>                         suggesting to port the client code for Prey to
>                         Ubuntu Phone,
>                         > https://github.com/prey
>                         >
>                         > (other clients are available at
>                         https://preyproject.com/download )
>                         
>                         
>                         It may be an excellent idea if we deliver Prey
>                         pre-installed.
>                         
>                         My experience: I just bought a Moto-G phone,
>                         and tried to setup the "location service in
>                         case of theft" of Motorola...
>                         it was too complicated, needed to go between
>                         phone and web several times, couldn't make it
>                         work.
>                         
>                         Setting up Prey is a breeze. It's a very well
>                         thought product.
>                         
>                         My point is: let's not reinvent the wheel :)
>                         
>                         Regards,
>                         
>                         --
>                         .   Facundo
>                         .
>                         Canonical - Ubuntu Engineering
>                         
>                         
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