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When I first met Silent Circle and its products, my opinion was that their product design is impractical and not convincing for customers. With all respect to P
by andrey_utkin 10y ago
When I first met Silent Circle and its products, my opinion was that their product design is impractical and not convincing for customers. With all respect to Phil Zimmermann (he really deserves a decent pension).
Either you ditch Android and go fully FOSS (no firmware blobs!) and OSHW with as little software footprint as possible and get software stack audited and thoroughly pentested.
Or you are fine with Android and you just provide some additional applications and maybe services. But this doesn't justify selling a _device_. You know, there's no such thing like Angry Birds Phone. There's no Facebook Phone either.
- SturgeonsLaw 10y ago> There's no Facebook Phone either Well, not any more, but they tried. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_First https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_First
- dexterdog 10y agoBut it's hard to go full tinfoil without owning the device. I applaud their effort, but there are just too many interests vested against it.
- andrey_utkin 10y agoBut you cannot be owning the Android device because Google is owning it by means of closed-source core components. Well, manufacturers also aren't going to let you own your device because they release only blob-stuffed devices. There's actually no such thing as fully open-source Android: https://plus.google.com/+JeanBaptisteQueru/posts/9HHRURorE7g https://plus.google.com/+JeanBaptisteQueru/posts/9HHRURorE7g It feels very silly, but still running Linux kernel self-built from sources on modern ARM devices is mostly discouraged, and if it works, it's result of volunteer effort. And even if drivers are there in source, datasheets for hardware are often not public and one needs to sign NDA to read it.