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[Olivier Tilloy <olivier.tilloy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 5:31 PM, Matthias Apitz <guru@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> El jueves, 11 de junio de 2015 16:38:50 (CEST), Simos Xenitellis escribió:
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 1:41 PM, Marco F <maic23@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> >>> Anyhow, in Ubuntu, things are stored in /userdata/.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> sudo rm -rf /userdata/* && sudo reboot
>>> >>>
>>> >>> rally should get you going, which I think is what the factory reset
>>> does
>>> >
>>> > ... but: call-history, SMS, contacts, mail credentials for Dekko ...
>>> > are stored below ~phablet;
>>>
>>> the content of /home/phablet and /userdata/user-data/phablet seem the
>>> same...
>>>
>>>
>> They are different mount points to the same location.
>> All user data is stored in the userdata location.
>> Ideally, you would perform a factory reset and then, if you wish, check if
>> there is any file
>> that was left over.
>>
>> The factory reset would erase everything in userdata.
>> Here is the code,
>>
>> https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~system-settings-touch/ubuntu-system-settings/trunk/files/head:/plugins/reset/
>> What would be very constructive here, is to perform a Factory Reset,
>> then connect to the phone with phablet-shell and try to find any remnant
>> of
>> private information.
>>
>> If you find something, file a bug report at
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-system-settings
>> and give the URL here so that we can subscribe to it.
>>
>> If you do not find something, still tell us so that we know that one more
>> person had a look into this.
>>
>> Simos
>>
>
> Thanks. I will perform the above steps, SSH-in again and check what is
> leftover; I do already know, in which files are stored:
>
> - Wifi credentials
> - contacts (evolution db)
> - SMS and call history (mysql db)
>
> Do the web browser store passwords?

No it doesn’t.
It does store navigation history and bookmarks under
~/.local/share/webbrowser-app though (and it has cached data under
~/.cache/webbrowser-app)

>
> More secrets were not given in my wife's BQ.
>
> matthias