[Discuss] Syncing Android phones directly

[dsr at randomstring.org (Dan Ritter)]

On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 02:11:48PM -0400, Richard Pieri wrote:
> Dan Ritter wrote:
> > On any rooted Android, install DroidWall. There you go: per-app
> > network firewall. Default permit or default deny, and per-app
> > permission/denial of each of WiFi and cell connections.
> 
> I've tried DroidWall in the past. It blocks entire applications, not
> behavior. So you can't tell, say, Dolphin not to phone home and still
> use it as a web browser.

Correct.

If you want to ban contact to specific IPs or domains, you can
write iptables config yourself. I'm not aware of any apps that
are more user-friendly than that.

-dsr-