XPost: comp.mobile.android, alt.comp.freeware   
   From: grschmidt@acm.org   
      
   On 09/06/2020 01:04, Arlen Holder wrote:   
   > On Sat, 6 Jun 2020 22:30:21 +1000, Gary R. Schmidt wrote:   
   >   
   >>> But if you have a _better_ working solution to the problem, I'm all ears.   
   >>>   
   >> Sure, you have to write a "call application" that does all that you want   
   >> securely, it cannot be done using the existing components of an Android   
   >> handset.   
   >   
   > Hi Gary,   
   >   
   > Thank you for clarifying the situation, where I don't disagree with you.   
   > o Both you & I are well meaning, intelligent, purposefully helpful adults.   
   >   
   > As such, you hit the nail on the head.   
   > o If you're an expert, you can write your own apps that do have privacy;   
   > o But if you're a general user, you need to rely on privacy-based apps.   
   >   
   > The only workable solution is to either write your own app, or simply use   
   > apps that don't rely on the inherently poorly designed default sqlite   
   > contacts database use model (designed, of course, by Google).   
   >   
   > To have _anything_ in the default contacts sqlite db, is to NOT be private!   
   > o I didn't design it that way... Google did.   
   >   
   > To my knowledge, nobody has suggested a better solution (e.g., your   
   > solution is fine to write your own app, but it's not workable for the   
   > general user).   
   >   
   Ah, I didn't mean that 'you' qua 'you' would have to write the   
   application, but that a secure application would have to be written.   
      
   Possibly one or more already exists, if I wanted secure[1]   
   communications I would be looking for such a replacement application, as   
     I said, it cannot be bolted-on to the existing one.   
      
   	Cheers,   
   		Gary	B-)   
      
   1 - Of course, secure in this, or any,  context is a wibbly-wobbly concept.   
      
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