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NSA Android Phone To Invade Privacy, Violate Rights?

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thepowerbase.com; By Dean Howell
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OWNI.EU Claims that the NSA is on the verge of manufacturing and selling an Android smartphone. I don't think so...

What Is It? Should I Be Scared?

Now first, I’d like to point out that this article I’m going to be referencing doesn’t seem to have any sources other than the submitter/writer himself, so this is all highly speculative at this point. I’d like to cross-examine this piece as if it were news, so sit back and enjoy.

This all has to do with a project called SEAndroid. SEAndroid is born out of SELinux, which has been around for many years. Now that Android is “main-lining” with the vanilla Linux kernel– to some degree– integrating things like SELinux and create separate distributions based around it are no-brainers and that is just what this project is....

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