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Re:LineageOS 23 by strcat on Sunday October 12, 2025 @06:11PM (#45562461)
Open schematics for a PCB don't make it any harder to hide a backdoor. You're talking about devices which still have an entirely closed source SoC with all of the real complexity. The products you're repeatedly marketing here use a bunch of low end components with very poor security including lacking ongoing patches for vulnerabilities and basic standard security protections. They're falsely marketed as open but are actually closed source hardware with closed source firmware. A closed source SoC, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, cellular, NFC, SSD, touchscreen, camera, etc. attached to a PCB with open schematics is not open hardware.
Re:LineageOS 23 by fsflover on Sunday October 12, 2025 @07:04PM (#45562862)
> They're falsely marketed as open but are actually closed source hardware

This is just a strawman: Nobody claimed they were open hardware.

> Open schematics for a PCB don't make it any harder to hide a backdoor.

This is like saying that FLOSS doesn't make it harder to hide a backdoor. Of course it does.

Re:LineageOS 23 by raspyberr on Monday October 13, 2025 @07:27AM (#45567175)
The backdoor would be in the firmware and open schematics for a PCB don't say anything about open firmware right....
Re:LineageOS 23 by fsflover on Monday October 13, 2025 @11:00AM (#45569064)
You're not wrong. I only claim that there are fewer places to hide a backdoor when the schematics is open (just like with FLOSS software).