1. smart548's Avatar
    Or at leats, it seems so ;-)

    Blackberry Safeguard and GrSecurity confirmed on the Slider-blackberry-venice-leak-3.jpg


    Other than that, from the pics leaked it has been confirmed that the kernel used for the Slider is using GrSecurity:

    "Grsecurity� is an extensive security enhancement to the Linux kernel that defends against a wide range of security threats through intelligent access control, memory corruption-based exploit prevention, and a host of other system hardening that generally require no configuration. It has been actively developed and maintained for the past 14 years. Commercial support for grsecurity is available through Open Source Security, Inc."

    Safeguard, a bit of zoom in ;-) :



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  2. Bla1ze's Avatar
    Blackberry Safeguard and GrSecurity confirmed on the Slider-blackberry-venice-leak-1-copy.jpg

    Yup. As pretty much expected.
    09-18-15 03:56 PM
  3. smart548's Avatar
    That's a couple of hints about BlackBerry trying to secure Android.. Do you know (and can share) something else Bla1ze? ;-) Will the Slider come with an antimalaware,antivirus,firewall installed and working in the background?

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    09-18-15 04:01 PM
  4. Bla1ze's Avatar
    That's a couple of hints about BlackBerry trying to secure Android.. Do you know (and can share) something else Bla1ze? ;-) Will the Slider come with an antimalaware,antivirus,firewall installed and working in the background?

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    You mean aside from Lookout? lol
    09-18-15 04:02 PM
  5. WArcher's Avatar

    Yup. As pretty much expected.
    Check out this page when you have time: HTTP Headers: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 5.1.1; STV100-6 Build/LMY47V) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/43.0.2357.93 Mobile Safari/537.36 The STV100-6 has been out there and putzing about the 'web for a while, now.

    This site claims to have all the 'specs laid out as well: http://pdadb.net/index.php?m=specs&i...enice_stv100-1
    09-18-15 04:07 PM
  6. AnimalPak200's Avatar
    Of topic, but that first pic realy makes me wonder how wide/cramped will that keyboard feel after getting used to the Passport. I've always struggled with the Q10.

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    09-18-15 04:07 PM
  7. The Big Picture's Avatar
    well its not plain vanilla android as many smartypants expected. eat it or better yet suck it
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    09-18-15 04:12 PM
  8. smart548's Avatar
    You mean aside from Lookout? lol
    https://play.google.com/store/apps/d....lookout&hl=it

    You mean this one ^^?
    Other than that,Safeguard and the BlackBerry Suite what we are gonna get on the SW side? I mean, we have seen the tap to wake (instead of the swipe to wake that I believe HTC is using too), there seems to be NO gestures at all ( :-( ).. Something else you can share? Thx anyway Bla1ze! Can't wait for YOUR hands-on!

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    09-18-15 04:17 PM
  9. Alejandro Nova's Avatar
    https://forums.grsecurity.net/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=4216

    "The porting work of the PaX patch already done. We tested it with Towel & KINGROOT. The result as expected: they all failed to root the Android 5.0.2 with kernel code base from 2014. Perhaps, we might try to make GRSEC & RBAC into the Android in the future���"

    Wide vision, from Chile.
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    09-18-15 04:27 PM
  10. evodevo69's Avatar
    Can someone explain in lay terms what this means?

    I thought BlackBerry had found a way to use qnx as the kernel, what's this grsec about?

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    09-18-15 04:30 PM
  11. Iggy City's Avatar
    But will it be rootable?
    09-18-15 04:31 PM
  12. smart548's Avatar
    But will it be rootable?
    As far as I have understand from reading on the internet, NO, it should not be rootable.. I can be wrong obviously Waiting for Bla1ze to confirm!

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    09-18-15 04:35 PM
  13. evodevo69's Avatar
    https://forums.grsecurity.net/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=4216

    "The porting work of the PaX patch already done. We tested it with Towel & KINGROOT. The result as expected: they all failed to root the Android 5.0.2 with kernel code base from 2014. Perhaps, we might try to make GRSEC & RBAC into the Android in the future���"

    Wide vision, from Chile.
    What's the significance of this - why don't all the other manufacturers just use grsecurity?

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    09-18-15 04:53 PM
  14. dbmalloy's Avatar
    As for not being rootable... that will not be known till the device is released and the hackers have at it....
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    09-18-15 05:01 PM
  15. LuxuryTouringZone's Avatar
    Considering how tweakable Android is, I believe that this device will be rootable.
    09-18-15 05:14 PM
  16. kbz1960's Avatar
    well its not plain vanilla android as many smartypants expected. eat it or better yet suck it
    It's not BB10 either.
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    09-18-15 05:18 PM
  17. The Big Picture's Avatar
    It's not BB10 either.
    Not my argument. Google worshippers think there's nothing BlackBerry can do to contribute to android. "If it can be done google would have done it already with their zillions of dollars and thousands of einsteins at their disposal."

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    09-18-15 05:23 PM
  18. kbz1960's Avatar
    Not my argument. Google worshippers think there's nothing BlackBerry can do to contribute to android. "If it can be done google would have done it already with their zillions of dollars and thousands of einsteins at their disposal."

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    I didn't know BlackBerry made GrSecurity.
    09-18-15 05:27 PM
  19. The Big Picture's Avatar
    I didn't know BlackBerry made GrSecurity.
    Did google make it or deploy it in their products?

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    09-18-15 05:30 PM
  20. kbz1960's Avatar
    Did google make it or deploy it in their products?

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    I don't know. I guess they can along with every other mfg.
    09-18-15 05:34 PM
  21. smart548's Avatar
    I didn't know BlackBerry made GrSecurity.
    They didn't ;-) Still, they decided to adopt it. It's like using WPA2 key for a wifi connection instead of a weak WEP. If you don't know nothing (I mean really nothing)about internet security and call your provider for assistance for your home wifi, a good company will teach their employees to set you up a WPA2 password. A bad provider/company will not or will just tell them to put a WEP(bad move).
    Even if way too simplistic, that example explain what BlackBerry is doing. BB didn't "made" GrSecurity, but decided to use it, which SEEMS to be a good move.
    If it is definetly rootable or not, we'll never know until it will come out of course but I strongly believe that it is SUPPOSED not to be rootable

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    09-18-15 05:35 PM
  22. The Big Picture's Avatar
    I don't know. I guess they can along with every other mfg.
    So why didn't they?

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    09-18-15 05:35 PM
  23. kbz1960's Avatar
    So why didn't they?

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    Again I don't know but you make it sound like BlackBerry is the only one that can. How do you know others aren't?
    09-18-15 05:37 PM
  24. AnimalPak200's Avatar
    Again I don't know but you make it sound like BlackBerry is the only one that can. How do you know others aren't?
    Maybe because it's not compatible with Snapchat.





    JUST KIDDING! Lol

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    09-18-15 05:57 PM
  25. joeldf's Avatar
    When is someone going to peel that darned protective sheet off the screen?

    It's an evaluation unit. Peel that sheet off and evaluate it.

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    09-18-15 06:02 PM
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