Re:The Huawei Disaster Reveals Google’s Iron Grip on Android
by rurban on Saturday May 25, 2019 @03:57AM
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They not only forked it, they also improved it. They are e.g. the only one who built their own secure Annex K C11 extensions, besides Android Bionic. Android first did it with an old HP stlport, and then Bionic did it with C++ (Google style). Huawei did it in 1998 already in C.
They also are using safer xen compartments, as Amazon did until recently or Qubes is doing. kvm is fast, but certainly not secure.
Personally I trust Huawei more than Google, and esp. LG, Sony or Samsung. The current war on Huawei looks like Huawei is denying the US their backdoors into the baseband layer on 5G. Loosing 5G would be big for US intelligence, and good for privacy. China getting access into 5G backdoors is not as worrying as continued US abuse.
They also are using safer xen compartments, as Amazon did until recently or Qubes is doing. kvm is fast, but certainly not secure.
Personally I trust Huawei more than Google, and esp. LG, Sony or Samsung. The current war on Huawei looks like Huawei is denying the US their backdoors into the baseband layer on 5G. Loosing 5G would be big for US intelligence, and good for privacy. China getting access into 5G backdoors is not as worrying as continued US abuse.