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2014-09-08 , 16:17
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Originally Posted by Thoke View Post
One good effect of the Snowden revelations is that much more people think that way, giving (relatively) open-source phones a fighting chance. And I agree with you too.
In times where the words "common sense" are being used in phrases encouraging beating the war drums we can't expect corporations to do the right thing can we?

It would be interesting to see how many usage case irrelevant data connections these WP smartphones make behind our backs. Windows 8 sure is very busy sending contacting plenty of IP adresses but you can't exactly install a proactive firewall on your Windows Phone like you can on the big Windows can you?

Nokia / MSFT app store: this program (some MSFT game) "needs your location data" to run.

Nice hardware though
 

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