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Russia's New Secure Android Tablet Keeps Data From Google

Posted by timothy on from the da-ist-gut dept.

wiredmikey writes "It seems Russia's defense ministry doesn't trust Google's tablet computers: a new Android device presented to a top Russian government official boasts encryption and works with software and a global positioning system made in Russia, the AFP reports. The OS has all the functional capabilities of an Android operating system but none of its hidden features that send users' private data to Google, addressing concerns that data stored by Google could slip into the hands of the US government and expose some of their most secret and sensitive communications. Two versions of the tablet will supposedly be made — one for consumers and one for defense needs."

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  1. Re:Source code ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Will they honour their GPL obligations and make the source code available ?

    Android is licensed with Apache 2.0 mostly, so they'd only be obliged to release the source code for any kernel modifications they might have made.

  2. Re:Can we get the same? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Switzerland is not the EU. He's talking about the other EU countries among which The Netherlands which got most of the banking data handed over to the US.

    So yeah, your BS is BS.