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by _rdvw 3y ago
This is just the user-space aspect of the modem, it still has a 40MB proprietary firmware blob that does all the fun stuff. Also running long end-of-life and insecure Linux 3.18: https://github.com/the-modem-distro/quec
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by _rdvw 3y ago
iodeOS just recently had a 3 month long gap where they didn't publish their source code. See my full list of issues here: https://divestos.org/misc/i.txt
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by _rdvw 3y ago
Reminder that the SoC in this is 2,368 days old: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I.MX#i.MX_8M
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by _rdvw 3y ago
Fairphone's support periods are a lie, they last longer than the Qualcomm or the Linux kernel stable version they use actually offers. Fairphone 3 users despite still having "support" until next year are over a year behind Qu
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by _rdvw 3y ago
/e/OS is currently 7 months behind security updates for the browser/webview for the second time in a row and has a PDF viewer not updated since 2016 yet considers itself the "state of the art" in security. See my fu
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by _rdvw 3y ago
/e/OS is currently 7 months behind security updates for the browser/webview for the second time in a row and has a PDF viewer not updated since 2016 yet considers itself the "state of the art" in security. See my fu
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by _rdvw 3y ago
/e/OS is currently 7 months behind security updates for the browser/webview for the second time in a row and has a PDF viewer not updated since 2016 yet considers itself the "state of the art" in security. See my fu
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by _rdvw 3y ago
It is just a deal breaker in my book, and likely for others. It isn't even obviously stated on their documentation either, yet their homepage has "Keep your data private with an operating system that's fully secure."
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by _rdvw 3y ago
Fairphone 3 is currently shipping an end-of-life Linux kernel and Fairphone 4 kernel goes EOL before Fairphone claims support for.
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by _rdvw 3y ago
Ubuntu Touch doesn't even have encryption: https://github.com/ubports/ubuntu-touch/issues/178
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by _rdvw 3y ago
/e/OS hasn't updated their browser/system webview in 5+ months, see my version tracker here: https://divestos.org/misc/ch-dates.txt
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My Overview of GNSS(divestos.org)
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by _rdvw 3y ago
> surfacing IZAT NLP concerns have been known for many years now, my DivestOS hasn't included it for 6+ years: https://gitlab.com/divested-mobile/divestos-build/-/commit/a...
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by _rdvw 4y ago
uazo is doing a great job maintaining it but there is still an undecidedness to it: See https://github.com/uazo/bromite-buildtools/issues/109#issuec... and https://github.com/uazo/bromite
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by _rdvw 4y ago
If you really want Chromium based consider switching to Brave and following my steps here: https://divestos.org/pages/browsers#tuningBrave
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by _rdvw 4y ago
Tor Browser currently has _the best_ mechanisms to protect against fingerprinting. Most tests are biased to certain methods or do not have a large enough dataset or are only viewed in isolation.
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by _rdvw 4y ago
Bromite has not been updated since December 12th 2022 per my history here: https://divestos.org/misc/ch-dates.txt
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by _rdvw 4y ago
re Android & fork maintenance I track this here for Firefox: https://divestos.org/misc/ffa-dates.txt and for Chromium: https://divestos.org/misc/ch-dates.txt
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by _rdvw 4y ago
> but they haven't updated their default PDF app in at least 2 months The PDF renderer in their PDF viewer is from 2016 and has dozens of long-known security issues. > Can you install, say, WhatsApp through the store on Graphene
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by _rdvw 4y ago
> Not by explaining why I should like DivestOS Because I'm not trying to shill my project, but instead provide factual information about others in a thread about them. > because it means that they moved away from Google/Sams
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by _rdvw 4y ago
To answer the title: Maybe because they consistently go months without providing basic security updates to their users, phoning home to Google out of the box despite advertising otherwise, selling devices that are already end-of-life, and e
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by _rdvw 4y ago
The latest Firefox 110 for Android supports 5.0+. The latest Chromium 110 for Android supports 7.0+. Any device sold with the Android branding running 7.0+ will even have the latest Google/Chrome WebView updated out of band via Play. 5
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by _rdvw 4y ago
Firefox actually does alter UA on its own, see about:compat
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by _rdvw 4y ago
I cannot fathom how a browser/WebView from 7 months ago with 244 known security issues including multiple zero-days and a PDF reader from 6 years ago with 55 known security issues is in anyone's threat model. Do realize that combi
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by _rdvw 4y ago
Isn't that implied? This is a "Show HN" post.
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by _rdvw 4y ago
microG was never supported in DivestOS. You can get a fair bit of benefit from using the boot.img like you say, but it will only go so far. While I wouldn't recommend it, there are flashable ZIP images of microG, but it'd be at th
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by _rdvw 4y ago
DivestOS is not the best OS, for modern devices I recommend GrapheneOS.
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by _rdvw 4y ago
hammerhead died on 15.1 because no one could get Bluetooth to reliably work on later versions. The support is in the form of all the added security features, the (system) updates, and kernel patches like this: https://gitlab.com&
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by _rdvw 4y ago
The downloads page has the list of supported devices, but neither of those two you mention are supported. For a copy of the stock OS you can usually find it on the vendors website.
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by _rdvw 4y ago
Two of the benefits of DivestOS, the kernel patching/hardening and the vendor blob removal, are not compatible with GSIs as a GSI includes neither the boot or vendor partition.

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