A ZooVille App

[Tayn]

I was wondering... Given how there are many XenForo app implementations. And how there are already a few Tor clients and what not... If someone already made an open-source app for this site.
If not, what do you think about the idea? Perhaps somebody explored this possibility already and found a few roadblocks that he/she might be able to share?

I don't even know if the admins here would be OK with such a project existing to begin with...

Please do share with me if you have some knowledge on the topic.

 

[dartel]

The site is already mobile friendly. Why would you want an animal sex app icon on your home screen?

 

[SxaBeast]

Apps suk compared to urls

 

[Tayn]

My idea is a calculator-like thingy that once introducing the correct combination works as a password.
The benefit? Local storage of posts you already visited and files you saw in a gallery-like manner.

 

[pes]

It would be a massive undertaking to make this project secure. And a mobile phone is literally the least secure device you could use for this purpose.

My idea is a calculator-like thingy that once introducing the correct combination works as a password.

Locking your screen does that on any device. Lock screen programs are not the pinnacle of security at least on Xserver based linuxes. But since you want to use a phone for this, you can basically forget about security.

Local storage of posts you already visited and files you saw in a gallery-like manner.

The forum has a lot of posts and keeping that up to date would require lots of data. Transferring that over tor would take literally days.
And storing that on any device immediately makes you less secure. Because for example people can post illegal stuff here that you would unintentionally open and store a copy on your phone.

 

[Tayn]

It would be a massive undertaking to make this project secure. And a mobile phone is literally the least secure device you could use for this purpose.

Locking your screen does that on any device. Lock screen programs are not the pinnacle of security at least on Xserver based linuxes. But since you want to use a phone for this, you can basically forget about security.

The forum has a lot of posts and keeping that up to date would require lots of data. Transferring that over tor would take literally days.
And storing that on any device immediately makes you less secure. Because for example people can post illegal stuff here that you would unintentionally open and store a copy on your phone.

My intention is to keep every content inside an encrypted virtual filesystem. The app itself would be nothing more than a calculator with a hidden xenforo implementation and Tor capabilities.
Every sensitive data would be inside the described file.

Furthermore, the idea is not to store and keep up to date with everything on the forum. But to store content already visited (initially in a cache-like way with a TTL and a size limit). Then allow for the media content to be kept for longer if desired.

Someone takes your phone? Initially they only see a w weird binary file and a calculator. It is not until you extract the APK and reverse engineer it that you discover that it also has xenforum capabilities. But that's it. Because your binary file is encrypted with the calculator pass combination (which might allow both numbers and symbols).

Regarding phone security. Nowadays it is no different than Windows. And a lot of people already access from their phones to begin with.

 

[pes]

Nobody is preventing you from writing the application yourself.
From my security point of view, I am not going to use anything like that. But most people care much less about that and probably would use it. And those people provide the noise and easier targets in case zoo ever becomes a more significant problem.

 

[SyzygySin]

There is no way I would keep any pictures or websites like this on my phone. At best, I would only have some kind of encrypted or biometric-locked (or both) direct messaging app.

 

[Tayn]

Most important thing: regardless is open source or not, it has to remain here because I don't believe GitLab, GitHub, SourceForge & co. want in their servers repos for a zoo application. If it stays here nobody can also know if you put a malware

I think as long as the implementation of this forum do not deviate from the original template too much a public app where you provide your desired endpoint URL (which will also remain encrypted) is a valid approach. That way, it becomes a multi-purpose app.
But yes. You will never see me posting such app to my GitHub/Gitlab accounts.

There is no way I would keep any pictures or websites like this on my phone. At best, I would only have some kind of encrypted or biometric-locked (or both) direct messaging app.

It is understandable that most people would not trust such an app. Especially if it is nothing but "smoke" at the moment. But I think that there are many approaches that might serve different user needs. Such as having the file contents be streamed through your local network from a system running VeraCrypt. To that end, I trust that having an extendable app model such as apps like "Tachiyomi" is a valid solution.

 

[Dominion]

This is a really stupid idea. It's an easy way to out yourself.

There is no way I would keep any pictures or websites like this on my phone. At best, I would only have some kind of encrypted or biometric-locked (or both) direct messaging app.

Don't trust biometrics.