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Re:Linux Phones [are less secure than mainstream Android] by AnonHP on Sunday September 12, 2021 @11:00AM (#28501746)
> Apple scans your information in your own device (and its operating system is even closed source and cannot be verified).

Open source may be better in certain ways, but a statement that closed source cannot be verified as to what it’s doing is narrow and incomplete. Android’s key parts are also closed source (there’s a lot more in “Android” than AOSP).

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Re:Linux Phones [are less secure than mainstream Android] by nicce on Sunday September 12, 2021 @11:55AM (#28502263)
Open source is also quite meaningless in terms of privacy, unless you can verify that the running binary is build from the visible source.
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Re:Linux Phones [are less secure than mainstream Android] by m4rtink on Sunday September 12, 2021 @12:23PM (#28502512)
Thats where reproducible vuilds come in - I would not be surprised if reproducible builds became a legally enforced default in security sensitive contexts after all the high level cases of outside attackers slipping mallware into blobs built by enterprise vendors.
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Re:Linux Phones [are less secure than mainstream Android] by the_rectifier on Sunday September 12, 2021 @08:32PM (#28506574)
Reproducible builds are pretty standard in Debian.
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