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BatteryMountain 4 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS

Even then, it can be solved by having open-source firmware, kernels, drivers and userspace. If they make that the core value proposition, they will win.If they can guarantee the entire execution chain is open & clean, or even just flashable with custom firmwares/kernels, that would be amazing.

josephcsible 4 months ago [–]

That doesn't solve it. If the hardware itself is backdoored, none of those other things being open source will save you.

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