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Re:Drone Maker D.J.I. May Be Sending Data to China, U.S. Off... by Sir_Cmpwn on Friday December 01, 2017 @09:56AM (#15824131)
>But I use it because of a lack of viable libre and open alternative.

In what universe is LineageOS not a viable alternative?

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Re:Drone Maker D.J.I. May Be Sending Data to China, U.S. Off... by sli on Friday December 01, 2017 @10:34AM (#15824382)
LOS does nothing for proprietary binary blobs included on phones.
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Re:Drone Maker D.J.I. May Be Sending Data to China, U.S. Off... by Sir_Cmpwn on Friday December 01, 2017 @10:50AM (#15824516)
But it does do something for this:

>owning a smartphone means usually owning an endpoint for one of the giant corporate data sinks which its government can easily access.

At least as much as you can while carrying around a radio transmitter. Replicant is also a thing.

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