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Comment by mrd3v0

11 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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