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Re:Reverse Engineering of a Huawei P20 from China by temporaryred on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @07:59AM (#18238114)
It is absolutely insane to me that the market has not demanded for open source hardware and software. A competent company would be able to trivially hide such requests. How am I supposed to trust a large competent organization when there seems to be no incentive for them to operate on the behalf of the privacy of a user?
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Re:Reverse Engineering of a Huawei P20 from China by majia on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @08:56AM (#18238473)
Actually huawei phones are open sourced, and a few other vendors open source their phones too.

https://consumer.huawei.com/en/opensource/

The harder part is to go though the source code.

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Re:Reverse Engineering of a Huawei P20 from China by ishitatsuyuki on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @09:34AM (#18238752)
That's a misconception. The open source part is limited to GPL and some other trivial components that are already available in source.

Things like the evil services in the article are not open source at all.

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