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Not to sound paranoid, but won't even LinageOS phones have to run closed-sourced firmware and drivers?

• amiga-workbench 5y ago
  Correct, its entirely possible they could be doing more insidious stuff at the firmware level, but dumb keyword checking is almost certainly implemented in userspace. I don't think you can trust any proprietary firmware out there, its just a question of which you trust less than the others.
  • halfstar91 5y ago
    And based on recent discoveries it sounds like Xiaomi should be trusted less than others.
    • hef19898 5y ago
      As stupid as it might sound, I do trust Pixel phones, and an hypothetical iPhone running a different OS, the most of all alternatives. If one want's a smartphone, if not just take a 20+ year old dumb phone. Or BlackBerry.
      • kelnos 5y ago
        Good luck getting that 20 year old phone to connect to any modern wireless network. I don't think anyone is running a 2G network anymore.
        • hef19898 5y ago
          I totally forgot that even 3G is going to be phased out.
  • summm 5y ago
    Not only firmware. Custom ROMs actually have to use binary blobs in kernelspace and userspace as well, in order to be able to use the hardware.
  • FpUser 5y ago
    >"its just a question of which you trust less than the others." Simple. I do not "trust less". I just do not trust. My phone is a phone. No Internet activity. I spend enough time in front of my desktop, dragging another computer anywhere I go is the last thing on my mind.