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DT ☛ Firewall for SFOS AppSupport Applications - dt.iki.fi
Android’s security model uses one user ID for each application. This makes it easy to create iptable rules to block network access of some apps.
However, I prefer a whitelist approach: block all network access for AppSupport, then punch holes for those apps I need & trust.
Android is not a very important part of my Sailfish experience. The only apps I have installed are the F-Droid store, Signal and the DuckDuckGo mobile browser. I’m willing to accept some annoyances from this, but so far it has been working without any.
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DT ☛ Hosts-based Ad Blocking on Sailfish OS - dt.iki.fi
You can add as many sources as you want - they’ll be combined and de-duplicated to create the ultimate ad-blocking hosts file.
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DT ☛ Making sshd more secure on Sailfish OS - dt.iki.fi
One should also disable password and root login completely. To avoid system updates overwriting our edits, we will use this roundabout way to add this to our configuration: [...]