Comment by kaba0
4 years ago
The best bet is probably a pixel phone with GrapheneOS. (Do note, that copperhead os is a scam and is not to be used)
Gnu/linux phones have nonexistent security, other than being niche (so security by obscurity at most). And also, they are not yet usable as a daily driver for me personally, at least.
"Nonexistent security" is not an accurate description. It's just a totally different approach to security. It's verifiability.
https://puri.sm/posts/defending-against-spyware-like-pegasus...
https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/community-wiki/-/wikis/Freque...
That’s not how security works.
Whether or not I am allowed to check that my entrance has no locks whatsoever doesn’t make it harder to open it. And the reverse, even if I don’t know the details of the lock in my door, it will not let others pass through.
> even if I don’t know the details of the lock in my door, it will not let others pass through.
You absolutely can not make that assertion without being able to verify the lock.
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> Do note, that copperhead os is a scam and is not to be used
Can you expand on this point a little bit?
While it may be biased, this is a great summary: https://grapheneos.org/history/
Basically Micay is a legitimate security researcher who created the project and it was later hijacked by the company funding some of it. That company since then try to badmouth Micay at any place they find and is doing shady things on top of the still open source code base. Micay was so professional to destroy the verification key at the time of the forking.