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Comment by mrd3v0

9 hours ago

Given the state of Fairphone hardware, software and business, it is not surprising.

For those of us out of the loop, could someone summarize the situation?

  •   > Fairphone has said they don't plan to add a secure element. It can be seen from their current devices that they don't fully keep up with privacy/security backports and lag a year behind on shipping yearly OS releases. They skip over the monthly and quarterly releases entirely. They replaced their own non-GMS Fairphone OS with a dramatically less secure /e/OS option in partnership with Murena. They clearly demonstrate that security and even privacy are not the priorities.
    

    https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/114733211017800480

    • They replaced their own non-GMS Fairphone OS with a dramatically less secure /e/OS

      it sounds like they are saying that /e/OS is less secure than fairphone's own OS. with all criticism against /e/OS taken into account, i highly doubt that fairphone would have been able to make their own version of android more secure than /e/OS when they are not even interested in working on that.

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    • One of the reasons I haven't switched to Graphene is this kind of drama. I wish there was more middle ground. I don't think the post is in any way constructive and will lead to fairphone to consider adding a secure element.

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