Safe Internet Gateway

Safe Internet Gateway extends the Android's Network Permission model, guaranteeing piece of mind when using OTHER Apps by providing user controlled, fine-grained access to Internet for OTHER Android Apps!

Network communication is the most abused Android permission because malicious apps need Internet access to communicate with their command centers or to upload your data. Blindly granting Apps Network permission allows mobile spies and data thieves to send the information they steal to remote servers.

Don't you want to know exactly what potentially unsafe websites an App is accessing? That is what Internet Firewall SERVICE provides: Apps using Internet Firewall Service will not require Internet access permission, instead they will route their network communications through Internet Firewall, and Internet Firewall will ask for your permission if the URL is potentially unsafe.

And you don't have to trust us either, Safe Internet Gateway is an Open Source project, and the source code will be available at https://github.com/0PII/Lima soon

Please test it with Internet Firewall Demo to see it in action (Just click Go when the demo starts, and a notification for your permission will be added in the status bar).

Rationale

Currently, an Android App has two choices:

1) Either it requires the user to accept Full Network Access Permissions, thus asking for the blind trust of the user. This blind trust can be abused and is useful in malware that disguises itself as popular software.

2) Or, it doesn't ask for Network Access at all, seriously debilitating the application's features and usefulness.

Benefits

With One Way Internet Communications, the Android Apps will enjoy the user's trust and the benefits that come with that.

Individual Apps, will not require Full Network Access Permission, instead will connect through our service when they need to download data from internet. This service is perfect for Apps providing themes, news, updates, and other features that rely only on a download stream, but also need access to inputs like Video, Audio, GPS, and other sensors.

For developers: How?

When an App wants some data from the internet, our service will accept a request in the form of an URL and a reason to be delivered to the user.

The URL and reason will be shown to the user, who can accept/deny if so s/he wishes. If the user accepts, the Service will make the connection on behalf of the App, and then the Service will send the App the requested data, if the user allowed it.

At this point ability to save, load and manage the permissions is not yet implemented.