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> Even if you flash your own os, you still aren't going to know if any backdoors have been added. CyanogenMod for example is open source. There might still be
by spindritf 13y ago
> Even if you flash your own os, you still aren't going to know if any backdoors have been added.
CyanogenMod for example is open source. There might still be bugs, whether intentional or not, and you rely on the same hardware but I'd say that it's a definite improvement.
- cheald 13y agoCM still relies on proprietary, opaque binary blobs for hardware support. Nobody in open source can say for sure that they're secure.
- TheLegace 13y agoAlso isn't it a fork of AOSP, so it's not like they went through the source code, I mean they don't have as much resources so how could they?