• Turret3857@infosec.pub
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    14 hours ago

    2026 is year of Linux phone

    Linux sucks on phones for security

    Why?

    Linux security on phones is not equivalent due to these factors

    but Linux supports these things which are either not exact equivalents or would take an entire Dev team with full time funding to do

    Can you find me a phone & OS that meets those requirements

    Why? that has nothing to do with the topic of Linux security on phones?

    are you being serious with me right now? what about my question wasn’t “on topic”? If the hardware and software don’t exist, its not going to happen and you’re making a hypothetical argument to a factual statement.

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      10 hours ago

      I would love some more open hardware. I think it is possible for it to happen as long as there is a market for it. The difficult part is getting a 5G chipset that isn’t completely tied to a vendor kernel.

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      14 hours ago

      Linux does not suck on phones regarding security. Linux is what brings the security mechanisms faulty ascribed to as being “Android’s”. See previous posters claiming it was all “extensive modifications” by Android and not just Linux security mechanisms.

      Feel free to get a Fairphone 4, sign your Ubuntu Touch image with keys supported by the chipset and off you go. The fact that no one is selling you that has no relevance whatsoever to whether “Linux” supports it.