Comment by fifteen1506
7 months ago
Slow heating boils the frog.
Move now to alternatives. If you must use Android, GrapheneOS with Sandboxed Play Services.
7 months ago
Slow heating boils the frog.
Move now to alternatives. If you must use Android, GrapheneOS with Sandboxed Play Services.
It already took a mountain of resisting the network effect to get at least some half of my friends to chat with me on Signal. The chances to get them to move to something more obscure, that has any additional friction is low and the effort in convincing them will be high. That's not to say I won't try, but man I hope it doesn't come to that.
> If you must use Android
the reasonable alternative being... ?
For people looking for a new phone it could be either Jolla [0] or Fairphone 6 [1]. Both come with their own OS.
[0] https://jolla-devices.com/sailfish_devices/
[1] https://shop.fairphone.com/de/the-fairphone-gen-6-e-operatin...
Fairphone os _is_ android...
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You got me. None.
I do wish ubports + waydroid would be a reasonable alternative -- but it's wishful thinking.
My only hope is Tesla bringing out a phone with it's own OS at some point.
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GNU/Linux phones.
Name three?
Unfortunately, "reasonable" generally means "can do the things typically done with smartphones these days", which include things like banking, media streaming, and civic stuff - things mediated by the very systems whose vendors aren't just embracing remote attestation, but actually driving its proliferation.
For better or worse[0], this is not a technical problem - it's a social/political one. Technology created it, by making remote attestation possible - but the actual problem is with why companies want to use it.
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[0] - Definitely worse. Technical problems are easy.
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Are there any that aren't laughably insecure? No? Oh well.
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