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Xiaomi phones are the gold standard of price/performance where I live and their bootloader can be unlocked.

• kibwen 5y ago
  Obligatory reminder of the state surveillance and censorship baked into Xiaomi products: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28616683 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28616683
  • GravitasFailure 5y ago
    If you can swap the device OS with something more trustworthy, does any of that matter or is there evidence that the hardware itself is untrustworthy?
    • summm 5y ago
      It is not only about hardware. Lineageos re-uses binaries from the original image. The modem still runs original binaries. The bootloader is also original. Plenty of space to hide backdoors, possibly disguised as bugs.
      • GravitasFailure 5y ago
        Oh, I knew the modem issue but not that they were reusing binaries. Thanks.