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Re:There is no way to give a 3rd party app your location and... by em-bee on Saturday May 29, 2021 @12:33PM (#27326342)
/e/ is built on lineageOS but it is not lineageOS. the point of /e/ is to fix privacy issues, and therefore i expect that those issues listed for lineageOS do not apply to /e/.

you can even buy phones with /e/ preinstalled, which should allow the bootloader to remain locked. (i didn't verify this, but at least for some models like the fairphone it should be possible to install /e/ with a locked bootloader.)

privacy and security are not the same thing. while the article you link to recommends grapheneOS as a better alternative to protect your privacy, i am actually not sure that is the case. grapheneOS has different goals.

i already wrote about this here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26608697

i trust that /e/ will implement any security features that are necessary to protect my privacy.

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Re:There is no way to give a 3rd party app your location and... by atatatat on Saturday May 29, 2021 @09:29PM (#27329824)
> i didn't verify this

You really should!

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Re:There is no way to give a 3rd party app your location and... by em-bee on Sunday May 30, 2021 @01:45AM (#27330911)
it's only an issue if someone gets access to my device, which is not a threat i am concerned about. it is much more important to not leave random traces of activities all over the internet and especially not in the hands of a single company. my device doesn't log GPS, but google does. if someone gets access to my device, they get what i decide to store on the device. i have some control over that. i don't have control over what google does with my data.

google collects data on everyone. getting data by breaking into everyones device is not possible. there are to many devices for that. so that method is only interesting if you want to target someone specific. if i am a target then my phone is just a small part of what will be targeted. given the extremely small likelyhood of someone wanting my phone specifically, it's just not worth it to even worry about that.

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Re:There is no way to give a 3rd party app your location and... by atatatat on Sunday May 30, 2021 @01:08PM (#27334686)
> it's only an issue if someone gets access to my device, which is not a threat i am concerned about.

I hope you have no apps or ever run any JavaScript, good fellow.

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Re:There is no way to give a 3rd party app your location and... by em-bee on Monday May 31, 2021 @04:15AM (#27341536)
we were talking about the bootloader. how is a locked bootloader going to stop malicious javasrcipt? for that other measures are needed.
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