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No verified boot. If security (which is necessary for ensuring privacy) is of value to you, get a Pixel 3a, possibly with GrapheneOS. Get both to support free
by ta17711771 6y ago
No verified boot.
If security (which is necessary for ensuring privacy) is of value to you, get a Pixel 3a, possibly with GrapheneOS.
Get both to support free software, the idea of free hardware, but don't compromise your phone security model just yet.
- eeZah7Ux 6y agoPlease. Commercial phones "security model" is to protect themselves from the user, and that's about it. The baseband itself is the main backdoor.
- ta17711771 6y agoThe chips are built to mitigate this now. And upon reboot, a proper verified boot, as well as Auditor &or Attestation, lets you know, with cryptographic proof, whether your phone's firmware has been compromised by such a piece of hardware.
- eeZah7Ux 6y ago...and yet they are choke full of spyware. In the context of a proprietary phone, secure boot and all of that is the new tivoization.
- megous 6y agoI worry more about apps and weird SDKs that ping foreign servers all the time, which seems to be the custom on Android and iOS. A64 can do secure boot, I'm sure. So if anyone will have interest in implementing it and locking down their device, it's possible. Personally, it seems like too much trouble, for little benefit at this point in time.