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[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

And you are commenting as if this isn't possible for malicious use already on any port above 1024. Unless you have a firewall installed, there's a good chance an app on your phone has opened a port right this moment.

The only change I would need for Android is that a) the 70s UNIX privilege port legacy should be dropped and b) phones should have a special, popup based permission, like location access. The risks are all there already, if we're going to be risking random adware serving up crapware and destroying your data connection, we might as well see the benefits as well.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

We get it dude; you wanna run servers off of android.

Good thing the base is open source, you can go ahead and build that dream phone OS that doesn’t care about your personal security.

Nobody else wants to do this so I’m not sure why you’re arguing to hard for everyone to be able to do it. Why would I want to self host a website on a phone and expose myself to a million new attack vectors when there’s free hosting available en masse?

I run a server now for lots of local stuff and I still pay for a web server so my home isn’t constantly exposed to the internet at large. Why the fuck would anyone want to do that, IDK. it’s a fucking privacy nightmare.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

The boat is already full of holes, so let’s poke more!