[guardian-dev] orbot 12.04 + sd 'data' storage

shmick at riseup.net shmick at riseup.net
Thu Oct 10 11:53:52 EDT 2013



Nathan of Guardian:
> On 10/10/2013 12:39 AM, shmick at riseup.net wrote:
>> is there any safe way in future versions to have the 'data' component
>> not in the internal phone memory ?
>>
>> over time all the cached descriptors etc take up space
> 
> There are two reasons we need to use internal memory.
> 
> 1) We require the internal linux formatted storage for the Tor and
> Privoxy binaries, in order to be able to execute them.
> 
> 2) The cached desc and other persisted data from Tor is considered
> sensitive, and we want to protect it from access or manipulation by
> third-party apps. Only internal storage allows this.
> 
> I feel your pain for sure, and want to find a good solution to this. I
> suppose we could add a check box called "Store Tor data on unsafe
> external storage" and allow that for cases such as yours.

ahh, the old girl lives on ...

if the option arises i shall use with care

thank you very much indeed

> 
> +n
> 


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