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What's the best way to lock down an android tablet? (disabling camera, internet, apps) (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A friend is helping to develop a learning platform for incarcerated people, which will run on android tablets. They’re still in the planning phase and the friend mentioned that they were looking into how they could restrict access to some tablet features (ex. camera, internet, certain apps) as these are hard requirements. Apparently there are some services that can help with that management.

Are there any tools I can pass along to them? I saw this page on Dedicated Devices, but I couldn't find a guide on how to set it up. It seems like more of a technical process and it may require resources that the volunteer team doesn't have?

https://developer.android.com/work/dpc/dedicated-devices

edit: Thank you for the tips! I'm going to pass them along :)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Physically destroy the devices you don't want prisoners to have access to. Remove the camera, desolder it, remove the Wi-Fi controller, desolder it. Repeat for everything you want to limit, microphone etc.

You could do a custom ROM, in kiosk mode, so no apps can get installed other than those that you bundle in the ROM.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

These solutions may be hard to deploy to many devices

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

True. But prisoners have nothing but time. If you leave a physical device available someone's going to unlock it