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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.

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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....
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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).
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