This week there’s a lot going on in Fairphone software.
We have posted 4 job vacancies for the software team. We’d love to recruit from the community and the forum so please share with your networks: http://www.fairphone.com/join-the-team/
The latest software update, v1.8, is almost ready to go. We have partnered with a company on a pilot program that does interactive tutorials, and these new use cases (how to update; how to use the new launcher) will come along with the tutorials. We hope to push these out in a few days.
[quote]Countermeasures
iOS, Android and Mac OS X usually accepts ICMP redirect packets by default.
On the mobile side, most Android devices (galaxy series) with the accept_redirect field enabled by default
To disable you need to root your device and execute:
echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/accept_redirects[/quote]
I cannot find the directory /proc/sys/net on the Fairphone, so I would say FP is not affected (I am using OS version 1.6). @Sietse, could you possibly verify this?
Security fixes were completed for CVE-2014-6041 and CVE-2013-6272. Also, the following Android security fixes have been integrated: ANDROID-10227498, ANDROID-10148349, ANDROID-9950697, ANDROID-9695860, ANDROID-8617715, ANDROID-8476102 and ANDROID-8219321.
Special thanks for those! Keep up the good work!
Some of these bugs are rather nasty, allowing 3rd parties to trick you into installing application updates, which is a notorious problem on Android. Which is a very good reason, in my opinion, to keep Android up-to-date (nod in the direction of @Herve5 ). I’m looking forward to read about future software development on Wednesday! And I’m really hoping FP finds some top-notch developers! Yay! \o/
Upgrading to 1.8 does not include the storage upgrade for FP1 users. For now this upgrade can only be done from 1.6 - so I strongly advise doing the storage upgrade on 1.6 and then upgrading to 1.8.
Sorry for the hassle, but there was no way to unify the storage on your phone without wiping it, as such it can not be done in a “normal update”.