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Google announced today that support for a recently released Android privacy protection feature would be backported to billions of devices running older Android versions later this year. The permission ...

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</pre><BR><BR>On my other slackware box the group for /dev/null is sys and the permissions are rwx for everyone.<BR><BR>I'm having a similar problem with /dev/urandom and /dev/random. Maybe there are ...

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