Is your phone rooted? Android - IPTABLES - Droid wall and why you should use it

[ted leslie]

haven't rooted my htc desire hd  yet, plan on doing it eventually ....
why does this app. need phone to be rooted? surely a app. to protect
the phone
should run on a unrooted phone .. maybe no one has made a app-store
app. like this yet? or is it a case were phone has to be rooted for it
to work period?

tl

On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 7:58 PM, Dave Germiquet <davegermiquet-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Hello Fellow TLUGERS,
>
> I have found a new application for my android device that I thought could
> benefit everyone with a rooted android device.  Nowadays, there are lots of
> applications being made for android, and some of them are malware.  The
> application DROIDWALL can stop those applications in its tracks before any
> valid info gets out. This application is simple enough, because android is
> Linux it has iptables. Droidwall creates firewall rules so only certain
> applications can send out to the internet.
>
> What this means is:
>
> You use Droidwall to say only certain apps are allowed internet, and
> everything else is rejected. You can also use it to log what tries access
> the internet so you know possible suspects.
>
> Just thought i'd share.
> --
> -- Want to send emails that can't be read by someone else
> -- Encrypt with my pgp key which can be found here:
> -- https://keyserver.pgp.com/vkd/GetWelcomeScreen.event
> -- For more info go here: http://www.gnupg.org/ for GNU Version
> -- or here http://www.symantec.com/business/theme.jsp?themeid=pgp
> -- For business implementation.
> Dave Germiquet
>
>
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