Tag: gtalk

  • Faking the Green Robot – Part 2

    It has been long time since Part 1, but I’ve been busy with other stuff. In the previous part, I started analyzing how “Green Robot” feature can be faked, or more precisely, how Android is identified by google talk servers. Last thing I found out was that Android’s talk application securely connects to gtalk servers.…

  • Faking the Green Robot – Part 1

    On last November, Google Labs released cool feature, called “Green robot icon”. If enabled, it turns the bubbles next to your chat buddies in Google Talk, into cute android robots, for buddies connected via android device. It might not be the best thing for android users’ privacy, but other than that I think it’s pretty cool, and I want…