ubuntu-phone team mailing list archive

[Torsten Sachse <torsten.sachse@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 11 Jun 2015, Olivier Tilloy wrote:
> 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)

Just make sure to shred the data properly. If you just rm the files, they might
only get unlinked but still present on the flash storage.

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