Free Software Foundation issues statement on new iPhone models from Apple

Re:Free Software Foundation issues statement on new iPhone m... by spindritf on Tuesday September 10, 2013 @07:00PM (#6364177)

> Even if you flash your own os, you still aren't going to know if any backdoors have been added.

CyanogenMod for example is open source. There might still be bugs, whether intentional or not, and you rely on the same hardware but I'd say that it's a definite improvement.

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Re:Free Software Foundation issues statement on new iPhone m... by cheald on Tuesday September 10, 2013 @08:15PM (#6364554)

CM still relies on proprietary, opaque binary blobs for hardware support. Nobody in open source can say for sure that they're secure.

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Re:Free Software Foundation issues statement on new iPhone m... by TheLegace on Tuesday September 10, 2013 @11:11PM (#6365284)

Also isn't it a fork of AOSP, so it's not like they went through the source code, I mean they don't have as much resources so how could they?

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