ACLU asks feds to probe wireless carriers over And

[grega]

As info:

arstechnica.com/security/2013/04/wireless-carriers-deceptive-and-unfair/

Well, maybe this will drive some good changes.

For now, this looks like the only good solution:

www.google.com/nexus/4/

[Derek L]

I'm a Galaxy S3 user on Sprint.
I rooted my S3 and am now running Cyanogenmod v10.1
It's updated nightly, but I only update weekly.
These CM updates include Google's revisions to Android's core.

[grega]

Hi Derek,

CyanogenMod is a good open source improvement to Android - with the advantage of frequent builds (as is standard with linux developers using Git repos). So, you're better protected and have the benefit of the "latest goodies." I'm waiting a bit for Ubuntu's tablet/phone system to at least reach beta (and perhaps Firefox OS).

Another solution to the issue of tablet/smartphone security is Blackberry - which provides users directly with OS and security updates.

us.blackberry.com/business/software/bes-10.html