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runs: scope by account; app: the PKCE half of signing in
Three phones on one account now produce one history, which is the main reason to
have accounts beyond upload permission. GET /v1/runs returns the account's runs
and says how many devices contributed; fetching and deleting resolve a run id
against the caller's own devices, so an id from another account is not found
rather than fetched from wherever it happens to live.

The rule that needed stating: the empty account is never a group. Devices nobody
has signed in on are unrelated devices that share the absence of an owner, and
matching on "" would let any anonymous device read every other one's runs.
Tested, along with sibling-device access working and cross-account access not.

App side: authorization code with PKCE. The app is a public client - anything
compiled into an APK can be read out with unzip and strings - and the redirect
returns through a custom URI scheme that any app on the device may register, so
an intercepted code is a real risk. PKCE makes a stolen code worthless: it can
only be exchanged by presenting a verifier that never left the process.

A callback whose state does not match is refused before the code is spent and
before any network call, since that is exactly how someone gets a victim to
complete the attacker's sign-in.

Nothing from the IdP is retained. The ID token is used once to prove who is
signing in and then discarded; the device credential authenticates everything
afterwards. No access tokens to store, no refresh tokens to rotate.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-01 19:46:32 +02:00

echolot — measure, don't guess

Echolot

Free software for detecting and debugging local network issues from an Android phone — built for people who actually know what a neighbor table is.

Most "wifi analyzer" apps show you signal bars. Echolot aims at the layer where home and office networks actually break: duplicate DHCP servers, broken IPv6 RAs, MTU black holes, NAT64 weirdness, multicast that dies at the AP, DNS that answers differently than it should. It records what it observed, separates observation from interpretation, and exports the whole run so you can argue with it later.

Status: pre-release. The capability prober runs on real hardware; the production app and the probe server are not built yet.

Repository layout

docs/              design docs — the contract for everything below
echolot-prober/    capability prober: validates the no-root feasibility matrix on real devices

The Go probe server and the production app land here as siblings.

Design docs

The three specs are draft-complete and reviewed; treat them as the contract.

Doc What it defines
docs/feature-catalog-and-feasibility.md Full feature list + the no-root feasibility matrix
docs/measurement-schema.md Archived/exportable measurement JSON (observation vs finding, two-clock rule, anonymization)
docs/probe-protocol.md Client↔server wire protocol (pinned TLS control plane, binary UDP data plane, STUN, canary DNS)
docs/build-status.md Running log of decisions and next steps

Privilege tiers

Every result records which tier produced it:

  • app — no root, no special setup. The bulk of the functionality.
  • shizuku — ADB-shell privileges via wireless pairing, no root. Shipped in v1.
  • root — future optional module.

Licensing

Part License Why
All code (app, prober, server) GPL-3.0-or-later The value here is the platform-API research; copyleft keeps derivative apps free
docs/ (the specs) CC-BY-4.0 A wire protocol and a measurement format should be implementable by anyone, without license anxiety

Full texts: LICENSE (GPLv3) and docs/LICENSE (CC BY 4.0). Sources carry SPDX-License-Identifier headers.

If you want to build a compatible server or client, the protocol and schema docs are deliberately permissive — go ahead.

Building

See echolot-prober/README.md. Short version, from echolot-prober/:

echo "sdk.dir=/path/to/Android/sdk" > local.properties
./gradlew :app:assembleDebug
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