[gentoo-user] Gentoo speaking to Android

[gentoo-user] Gentoo speaking to Android

[Meino.Cramer]

Hi,

my setup is a recent Gentoo system, which is connected to the
internet. This acts as an Wifi hotspot for my android tablet.

I wiresharked some connections of this tablet to the internet
and it was -- lets say -- "astonished", how much this little 
tablet has to tell people, which I dont know and have never heard
of only by astablishing the connection and doing nothing else.

Since rooting an android device is common for nerds and geeks
only most firewalls available for android devices are so called
"no root firewalls" which tunnel all traffic through a local
VPN. These come also whith an understandable GUI.

My problem is, that these totally block traffic which is
initiated from outside the android device (which is a
good idea regarding firewalls).

I sideload all my programs (no contact to google
services for privacy reasons) by starting a webserver on
my tablet and send the data from my PC to the tablet --
which is now impossible because I am using a firewall.

My question is:
I only want to allow my tablet to connect via wifi
to my PC (I am using the "create_ap" script).
Due the firewall I need to fetch the data from
my PC instead of sending the data to my tablet.
It is sufficient to get access to only one directory
of my PC.
I dont want to setup a complete webserver on my PC
just for some Megs of data to transfer.

What is a secure, easy to setup and convenient method
to acchieve this?
(I only need some keywords ... no howtos needed. Will
try to setup the rest mysefl...;)

Thank you very much in advance for any help!

Best regards,
Meino

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo speaking to Android

[Bill Kenworthy]

On 04/10/15 02:04, Meino.Cramer@gmx.de wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> my setup is a recent Gentoo system, which is connected to the
> internet. This acts as an Wifi hotspot for my android tablet.

> 
> What is a secure, easy to setup and convenient method
> to acchieve this?
> (I only need some keywords ... no howtos needed. Will
> try to setup the rest mysefl...;)
> 
> Thank you very much in advance for any help!
> 
> Best regards,
> Meino
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

I use an openvpn tunnel to bypass the firewall ... feed whatever you
like down the tunnel - I currently use a dav server and total commander
with its dav plugin.

Android and IOS are both security risks (from the point of you have no
control over what they send back to big brother and his numerous
friends) so isolate them from the rest of your network if necessary.

BillK

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo speaking to Android

[Meino.Cramer]

Bill Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au> [15-10-04 04:08]:
> On 04/10/15 02:04, Meino.Cramer@gmx.de wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > my setup is a recent Gentoo system, which is connected to the
> > internet. This acts as an Wifi hotspot for my android tablet.
> 
> > 
> > What is a secure, easy to setup and convenient method
> > to acchieve this?
> > (I only need some keywords ... no howtos needed. Will
> > try to setup the rest mysefl...;)
> > 
> > Thank you very much in advance for any help!
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > Meino
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> I use an openvpn tunnel to bypass the firewall ... feed whatever you
> like down the tunnel - I currently use a dav server and total commander
> with its dav plugin.
> 
> Android and IOS are both security risks (from the point of you have no
> control over what they send back to big brother and his numerous
> friends) so isolate them from the rest of your network if necessary.
> 
> BillK

Hi Bill,

(if you pull the word "openvpn" from ist context it looks like a
contradiction in itsself ;) ;))) 8)

Thank you very much for the informations! Yes, Android and others
looks like, as they were invented to spy on people. Fortunately,
Android can be rooted and there quite a few possibilties to find
out the apps, which are bad (at least).

I will see, how this fit all together. The Android firewall itsself
uses a device local VPN, so I dont know, whether this may clash with
the setup...I will see.

Thanks a lot! :)

Best regards,
Meino