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Android users worried that the government is spying on their smartphone now have a new privacy option: CyanogenMod. Starting with todays nightly 10.2 build, the custom firmware will encrypt SMS and MMS messages sent to any device using the TextSecure protocol, including fellow Cyanogen users. Users wont have to do a thing; the cryptography runs […]

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Android fans whove been waiting for a stable edition of CyanogenMod 10.2 can finally start their downloads. Cyanogen has just released its final version of the custom firmware, giving the curious a (relatively) safe way to try the companys take on Android 4.3. Dont expect future support from Cyanogen beyond the usual bug and security […]

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Cyanogenmod.com is a site offering legitmate custom firmware for Android devices. It’s a popular site, pulling in about 100,000 unique US users per day according to compete.com and it has an Alexa rank of 6728.Unfortunately, the site has been compromised in an injection attack with a hard-to-diagnose piece of malware attempting to load code from […]

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