{"id":294,"date":"2025-06-21T16:57:22","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T16:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/cyberdisk\/?p=294"},"modified":"2025-07-01T19:18:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T19:18:16","slug":"sentry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/cyberdisk\/sentry\/","title":{"rendered":"Sentry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Software<\/td>Sentry<\/td><\/tr>
Type<\/td>Password Security<\/td><\/tr>
Tag<\/td>Security<\/a>. Privacy<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Platform<\/td>Android<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Privacy Rating<\/td>\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50<\/td><\/tr>
License Model<\/td>Free – Open Source<\/td><\/tr>
Links<\/td>FDroid<\/a>
GitHub<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Privacy Pros:<\/strong> Detect incorrect password attempts and wipe the device if there are too many.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Privacy Cons:<\/strong> NA<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Privacy Tip:<\/strong> Make sure to keep tidy backups in case your device is wiped on accident or by a bad actor.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Tiny app to enforce security policies of your device.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It can:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • limit the maximum number of failed password attempts<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • disable USB data connections (Android 12, USB HAL 1.3, Device Owner)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • disable safe boot mode (Android 7, Device Owner)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • notify on failed password attempt<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • notify when an app without Internet permission got it after an update<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    Be aware that the app may not work in safe mode.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Permissions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    • DEVICE_ADMIN – limit the maximum number of failed password attempts<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • DEVICE_OWNER – disable USB data connections<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • NOTIFICATION_LISTENER – receive lock\/package events<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES – receive all package events<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Software Sentry Type Password Security Tag Security. Privacy Platform Android Privacy Rating \u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50 License Model Free – Open Source Links FDroidGitHub Privacy Pros: Detect incorrect password attempts and wipe the device if there are too many. Privacy Cons: NA Privacy Tip: Make sure to keep tidy backups in case your device is wiped on accident […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":98,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[16,14],"class_list":["post-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","tag-privacy","tag-security"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/cyberdisk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/cyberdisk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/cyberdisk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/cyberdisk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/cyberdisk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/cyberdisk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":574,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/cyberdisk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions\/574"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/cyberdisk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/cyberdisk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/cyberdisk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/cyberdisk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}