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Re:An Open Letter Against Apple's Privacy-Invasive Content S... by fragileone on Friday August 06, 2021 @11:22AM (#28088394)
See the GrapheneOS or CalyxOS websites for more details, they are significantly hardened for security compared to LineageOS.

Currently those two projects only support Pixels, mainly because they're all bootloader unlockable. If these projects had as many volunteers as LOS then more devices could be officially supported.

LOS on a supported Android phone is still a better option than a stock Android or iPhone at least.

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Re:An Open Letter Against Apple's Privacy-Invasive Content S... by SubzeroCarnage on Friday August 06, 2021 @12:59PM (#28089907)
My https://divestos.org project, while not as secure as GrapheneOS, provides lots of security to many older devices.
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Re:An Open Letter Against Apple's Privacy-Invasive Content S... by pzo on Friday August 06, 2021 @02:13PM (#28090958)
Interesting project. Thanks for sharing! Any reason why at least some of those patches couldn't be upstreamed to LOS?
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Re:An Open Letter Against Apple's Privacy-Invasive Content S... by SubzeroCarnage on Friday August 06, 2021 @02:16PM (#28090977)
Most things simply aren't in their scope.

I do send occasional patches to Lineage if they are in-scope and am in contact with some of them reasonably frequently.

The big blocker is that their Gerrit instance requires a Google account to login.

Example of a recent fix I emailed them: https://review.lineageos.org/c/LineageOS/android_device_htc_...

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