oh my ! ill keep an eye on you guys now more than ever this is starting to get interesting , still out on wich android phone to buy thou this looked promising until ive heard no nexus version aka full aosp support ...crap! love the design much more than the htc one even so here http://www.androidcentral.com/huawei-ascend-p6-review , as said the design is great not so much the negatives about it thou -.-...xD still running an ~ Snipped as per TOS ~ 8 year old phone , when will someone release a proper ~ Snipped as per TOS ~ android phone with full aosp support and one that doenst look like a fn plastic toy brick damn it
I will look into this and if needed we can fix the default ciphersuite. What's coming: Screen mockup for the settings app here
I'm pretty excited about this project. My smartphone is critical to daily life and I hate that it's basically just an NSA tracking device right now. I know that you can't make it perfectly secure and private, but there are massive improvements that can be made over the current Android options. I'll be watching with much anticipation.
Been doing the same, I like this project its nice to see decent people spreading the wilderness around here, thanks goes out to x942 am sure many other lurkers out there hidden !
This is starting to look awesome I'm running a HTC One with ViperOne Rom, I have been toying with the idea of "opting out" and ditching my phone/NSA beacon altogether but not sure I could do it though Guardian Rom could be the solution, thanks
Just waiting for launch day and it's mine! (I hope it's okay to post this if not sorry and mods please remove it) Guardian Rom has launched a funding campaign on our site: -www.guardianrom.com- All the proceeds go to making Guardian Rom better and speeding up development. There are some good gifts too for donations.
I think when you get the 5 supported, I'm switching. Are you going to incorporate MAC spoofing? There is FINALLY a working MAC spoofer in the Play Store - MAC spfr (root). Works on GNex and N7. There is working Host Name Spoofing as well, with another app, and also an app for specifying what DNS servers you want to use. Just some things to look at for GuardianROM. It would really be great if you could develop the kernel for better battery/performance as well...like franco, faux, trinity, etc... But I don't know how that would effect security. PD
Nexus 5 will be supported as soon as I get one (hopefully quickly at launch). It's going to be my new secure phone ( I use a Note 3 as a daily driver - need Gapps for somethings sadly). We have mac spoofing working on certain devices. The app will be released opensource on the Play Store as well. We have now started working on making a lot of our apps installable on any device, this way users aren't forced to use our Rom. This will be released as a flashable zip sooner or later. Right now it's a stock kernel with only security enhancements (mainly XTS mode is supported). Battery life improvements should be noticeable out of the gate since GApps aren't present. GApps (especially maps and hangouts) kill battery like nothing.
Great project! I'm not able to test the ROM (I'm using SGSII) but like what I'm reading so far. The irony: The website you mention(www.guardianrom.com) is not able to load with my secure/privacy browser setup(FF + ABE + NoScript).
Sorry about that. We are using Squarespace as our host as it is much easier then dedicating the time to actually hosting our own site. We have a developer work on our own site however and it should be up shortly We also will be setting up a TOR hidden service for downloads as well.
Does the secure replacement app for callling only work as VOIP and fully disable placing regular calls over one's cellular network? Or is it possible to also place regular calls?
You can use both. The Secure Calling app (Ostel) does integrate with the dialer so it's easier to use but you don't have to enable this and normal calls still work fine. Only calls going over the Ostel network or your own ZRTP server are encrypted.
OSTel is nice, great inclusion. For those that want to try it now, head to the website (VPN/Tor) and create an account. Then install CSIPSimple and configure. Only using while connected to a VPN would increase anonymity. x942, how would you compare Moxie's RedPhone to OSTel/CSIP? Pretty much the same, no? PD
I'd like to know this, too. Is there any way to download apks directly from google play without having gapps installed? And if not, would it be very insecure to install the google play app in this rom and deny all permissions exept the google account with openpdroid?
hi, Best wishes for this project. An XDA board member has published a comparative study of most Roms h..p://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2482420 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/lv?key=0Auzhy7U8YwLodEtnZG9GMzdvLXI0N2RfWlV2NHNWNVE&pli=1#gid=1 hope this helps Rgds
Security wise: Pretty much the same. Ease of use: Redphone wins hands down (uses your phone number so no sign up needed). Privacy: Ostel wins hands down (doesn't use your phone number so no tie back to you, also you can setup your own server). Yes, I have an old spare phone I use to pull apks down. I then use titanium to back them up and flash them to my Guardian Phone. I don't do this anymore though for security reasons. Not much you can do. If you install playstore it can do what ever it wants basically. I have tried with openpdroid and it just breaks the playstore completely. I am looking into have the ability to have GApps in the "outer OS" and not in the hidden OS. Thanks!!
What are the security concerns here? What can an app with no permissions do? Or average google play app that receive fake data(thanks to OpenPDroid) and without Internet, Bluetooth, NFC permissions?
I'm using cyanogenmod 10.2 at the moment, will try this rom when I'm home next week. I configured openpdroid to deny all permissions exept account credentials and accounnts to the apps Google Account Manager, Google Play Store, Google Play-Dienste (german language) and some other apps with google in their name. The Play Store still works, but there are notifications popping up every few seconds telling me something was denied to an google app, so I guess this might effect battery life. I'd like to be able to download apps when not at home and I don't have a second phone with me. I also guess downloading proprietary apps via other repositories like Aptoide or Blackmart isnt a good Idea concerning the safety, or am I wrong here?
Hi, I just received my Nexus 5. Yay. Am I right in that the Guardian Rom that you have for the Nexus 4 will not work and I have to wait until you create a version?
You are introducing closed-source and proprietary apps into secure (open-source) system. Personal I refuse to do this as much as possible. To each their own though. Permissions aren't the only issue here. What if the app requires internet access to run? Revoking it crashes it. Then one day the developer pushes a malicious update that turns it into spyware (or worse malware thanks to a root exploit). Only install from sources you trust. In my case that's FOSS software ONLY. In your case that may be different. The issue isn't block permissions, the issue is that the Google Framework has system permissions. It can basically do what it wants. We have a work around for this though: (NOTE: This is dependent on Google Approval and numerous other things. ) We are looking into having a "Professional" and "Community" edition. The latter would be fully open-source as mentioned, the first would be exactly the same but include the proprietary Google Apps while in the normal OS. Hidden OS would NOT have GApps as this would leak the presence of the Hidden OS. Of course this is just thoughts on paper. We have to get the stable build out before anything is done along these lines. It should work in theory though. This would give users the best of both worlds. Play OS and Secure OS on one device. Personal I would not use ANY proprietary apps at all, regardless of what store they came from.
I have a build in the works. Sadly UPS is useless and once again delayed my package. I can't start till Tuesday now. I wish companies would use more reliable services for delivery. UPS has never delivered a package to me on time yet.
Hi Kyle, Any update on the Guardian project for the Nexus 5? (We are talking about the LG Nexus 5, right?) I'm in the market for either a new smartphone or no phone at all, so this ROM is sort of a deal breaker for me Thanks!
