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SecUSo / privacy-friendly-netmonitor

Privacy Friendly App that shows active network connections of installed apps.
GNU General Public License v3.0
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need to reactivate logging after each reboot #67

Open TjrGithub opened 5 years ago

TjrGithub commented 5 years ago

I would expect netmonitor to be a fire-and-forget tool that adds all network connections to its database. However, I need to re-enable it after each reboot. This also means I cannot get a log of what happens during boot.

version 2.0 fdroid /device mido /version lineage-15.1 /date 2019-04-10 /kernel 3.18.71-perf-g80cb3f607eb7 /mods F-Droid, XprivacyLua, AFWall

Kamuno commented 4 years ago

Sadly there is no easy way on an unrooted device to get information about what is happening during boot. Even if we include the functionality to autmatically restart the logging process it would start logging way after all the system apps have started and there is no guarantee that it would be started before any potential harmful apps.

I will mark this as an enhancement since this functionality still makes sense as a "fire and forget" app. Keep in mind that Netmonitor was not designed to log everything all the time as logging everything can lead to huge amounts of data in a short time.