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I've had the Pixel 1 for almost three years now. Solid phone. But I always knew it had a manufacturer-installed backdoor. Does anyone know on the progress on GN

• pcroh 7y ago
  Yes, I'm sure a GNU/Linux phone will have fewer bugs... hahahaha
• chrisanthropic 7y ago
  In no particular order, here's the ones I've been following: -https://postmarketos.org/ https://postmarketos.org/ -https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/ https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/ -https://www.pine64.org/pinephone/ https://www.pine64.org/pinephone/ I'm the most optimistic about Postmarket in the long run, but the others are actual hardware so there's that.
  • Youden 7y ago
    Since you say you've been following it, any idea what's going on with modems on postmarketOS? Is there any chance of getting working calls/SMS/data working on conventional phones or is that only likely to work on open source stuff like PinePhone?
    • scintill76 7y ago
      I think I've laid the foundation for supporting Qualcomm modems with ofono (committed to the pmOS repos.) My device has a vendor kernel, and I helped someone else with a mainline kernel. I haven't seen much movement other than that, maybe due to lack of interest or skill in potential developers. (Each device needs a few custom bits like firmware packaged.) Another problem might be a lack of usable GUI to actually use the modem features, but I'm not up to speed on recent progress.
• ac29 7y ago
  What backdoor? The flaw described uses a user-installed malicious application to exploit a bug in the permission system (which also must be user approved). I dont see any claim or evidence of a manufacturer backdoor.