Posted on 07/20/2022 10:05:25 AM PDT by tired&retired
From "Settings" menu on your Android phone, click on Biometric & Security, then click "Other Security Settings" and then click on "View Security Certificates"
Chunghwa Telephone, Hongkong Post....
Why are these in our phones?
It’s a user certificate. It just means if someone wants to connect to that Chinese service there is a certificate issued by a Certificate Authority common to both the User and service certificates.
It can be removed as well.
So, a big “N/A”
Due to the VERY lax security they have I have not had an Android phone for many years. Nothing that is found on such phones would surprise me.
Trusted security certificates. They are used to verify if a sites secure connection is trusted. I bet if you look there are many other issuing authorities besides China on there.
I have no such thing. Even tried searching settings for certificate. I have WiFi certificate(none installed), VPN & App certificate(none installed) and CA certificate(none installed).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chunghwa_Telecom
Taiwan Telecom. The good news is, your phone will work in Taiwan.
It means they got control of your phone and can censure what you read. For example, words like ______, or ________, or saying _______ is a _______, are probably automatically removed. If you don’t see the words above it means I’m right and they’ve got you.
You can delete them, but it could cause websites and/or apps to stop working or issue security warnings.
They are pre-placed on an Android phone by Google, as if every user “may” need them at some point. They are from entities all over the world.
The FCC should make the practice illegal.
Android can change to operate such that the user is asked if they want to load a certain certificate, when and if the user’s use of the phone encounters some cause to ask for it.
The user should have the clear option of saying no, informed only that saying no may affect just something they are trying to do at the moment, and nothing more.
Keeping these up to date is vital for your device's security, and is one of the primary reasons you need to constantly update them with vendor supplied patches.
And in some cases, using old or out of date CA root certificates may keep you from using an app, or accessing a web site.
If you feel comfortable with this stuff, try turning them off and see if any of your apps or web sites break. If you do this, I would disable one or two suspect ones at a time.
As far as things can be trusted (Android = Google)
Android is no worse security wise than Apple. In fact Android is better in my opinion because the OS allows the user to know what permissions an app wants and even to deny specific requested permissions before install. Apple just give everything every time to every app. Android gets a bad rep due to their open ecosystem and lax app review standards, however Apple has suffered from some serious malware in their app store since their review process isn’t really that much better than Android. Key is to stay away from games and apps from non-reputable sources.
Apple can’t be trusted either.
Does it get put back after every update?
Just an ‘accident’ I’m sure...................š¤·āāļøš.
What about ‘____’?? is that censored too?
I have both China Financial Cert. Auth. and Chunghwa Telecom on my phone. So can/should I disallow both? Will it have any affect on the normal daily function. I don’t know what a Certificate is so doubt I’d need that! ... AND what an extensive list on this menu!
I knew Freepers would have the snswers...
Thanks
yup yup, he can’t see that word either.
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