• SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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    6 days ago

    If Blackberry wasn’t run by complete idiots, they would swoop back to number one share with a privacy phone.

  • Turret3857@infosec.pub
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    8 days ago

    linux phones are a security nightmare and should not be taken as a serious option by any person of interest.

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      8 days ago

      Ah yes, because trusting your security to an American tech company which controls your OS is so much more secure 🙄

      • floofloof@lemmy.caOP
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        8 days ago

        Maybe Linux phones are less secure but more private? With Android and iOS a lot of effort has been put into restricting what each application can do. With standard Linux that’s less rigorously controlled, which is why there are security enhancements and sandboxing extras a distro can optionally add. So standard Linux may be less secure by default. But it doesn’t have all the surveillance built in that the mainstream phone OSs do, so it’s also by default more private.

        Still, “security nightmare” sounds extreme. Wouldn’t a phone running a version of Debian be comparably secure to a computer running it?

      • Turret3857@infosec.pub
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        7 days ago

        mlfh gave the actual explanation for why I said what I said. No American tech company controls LOS/GOS/COS/etc.

        any POI should be using at the very least, LineageOS, though they should probably be using Graphene.

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      8 days ago

      Then make them secure everyone can complain and do nothing, write code develop ecosystem

      • Allero@lemmy.today
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        8 days ago

        Not everyone is a senior specialist with decades of experience and troves of free time.

        Always good to participate, but you cannot expect an average Joe to fix everything they complain about.