Barry Drake - 2015-12-21

It installs and runs just fine on my Wahwei P6 Lite with Lollipop, but after I put the OpenSuse image on the machine, I found the app couldn't see it. Neither could the root file browser. There's a lot more that I've offered to the FOSS organisation. To cut iot short, Google can now hack into a Windows computer when the phone is plugged in to a USB port. I discovered this when I use my Ubuntu file browser from a terminal. I've done a lot of research since then, especially browsing github. I followed a whole lot of interesting links, mostly getting a 404 error. I'm wanting to report this as a virus that must have got into the github repo for the 'linuxonandroid' project. It's known as the Google 'locked-in' virus, and it's hard to eradicate. The only known radical solution is to re-flash the infected machine with an OS image that's known to be clean. A possible one might be created using the forking method for virus elimiation, if you have a git snapshot from a time before they scrapped their Phone, and at the same time, their PC on Android app. I'm sure you know most of this already, but if you want to contact me, you can send a secure message using my Launchpad name. You'll find me quite easily somewhere on there.

Incidentally, a rooted phone is no longer useful. All the power commands (su, sudo chown and so on are just not there. Nor are they there on adb. Hcker are banned, unless they work for Google!