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Posted Oct 7, 2010 18:16 UTC (Thu) by drag (subscriber, #31333)
In reply to: DroidWall by rfunk
Parent article: Questions about Android's security model

It probably won't be too difficult to get that if you wanted it... after all it's just a iptables firewall.


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Posted Oct 9, 2010 4:16 UTC (Sat) by swetland (subscriber, #63414) [Link]

It's been a while since I've played with iptables, but I believe it's possible to tag packets based on UID. In that case, since apps on Android are assigned unique (for that device) UIDs on installation, it should be straight forward to tailor rules to individual apps.

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