Hi, I detected a minor security issue with fairphone 6 and the personal information provided by the phone itself to third parties. In this case some Banks Account App requires a verified or known mobile phone trusted by biometric Authentication or telephone number.
Although we can change the name of the devices, by default there’s a “Model” name of the devices which is exposing all the complex model of e/OS to thirds parties ( banks ).
I was wondering if Murena do have an alternative to fix this and set the “Model” features open ( as the device’s name) so we can modify it as well.
This is clearly a security bridge since we can “hide” the IP, use VPN and randomized MAC , but they can actually know the type of devices and model , so it’s non sense…
This is a good point but to whom is the device description disclosed?
As I understand it /e/ would attempt to hide one’s personal data from Google (and other) servers.
During any transaction a bank would need to know reliably that it was taking instructions from you … perhaps better, in my view, is that they learn something definite about you as long as it is banking secured than the more usual approach that the bank attempts to accept that you have a device “Google verified” and thus which Google says is worthy of trust.
That’s not the case if the app has some specific trackers which automatically recollect personal and critical information about the gateway, IP, device, location etc.
e/OS security system ( or Advance security app) is based in Orbot , which make a connection more or less ‘secure’ , but there are some applications which required Google Services as OAuth to being able to verify the encryption certification attached to services ( mainly Google Wallet and banks apps). As you said, Google still is the king.
I’m wondering if our personal information is hidden by G-Services BUT then they know the type of devices and technology we are using, it isn’t this consider a security bridge?
Abstract: I do not want my bank to know my trust device is so-called “Fairphone 6” model.