What about GrapheneOS on Pixels? On Wed, Jul 29, 2020, 5:14 PM Zenaan Harkness <[email protected]> wrote:
> With respect to "smart" phones, it can be reasonably claimed that we don't > control our lives. > > At the hardware level, the baseband (radio) computer in almost all cases > has access to RAM, thus access to your passwords and keys for any open > wallet or encrypted filesystem, etc. > > Notwithstanding, we owe it to ourselves to run an operating system which > at least does not deny to us, our right to install and run any software of > our choosing. > > The average Android and iOS Apple phone, is a strict walled garden into > which only authorised software may be installed. > > Software "Apps" which are not authorised (or have been banned) by either > Google or Apple respectively, are not available in the respective "Play > Store". > > This is abhorrent, a centralisation of power, a blatant censorship vector, > financially burdensome to those of meagre means, and fundamentally > unethical in principle wrt the suppression of the basic rights of the end > user (refer to Richard Stallman's GNU General Public License for details of > fundamental human rights in relation to software/ apps/ computing). > > > Totally random scenario/ example: > > Some rando punk decides Tor needs improvement, and works diligently for > zero pay and little gratitude to bring say (random examples) chaff and UDP > transport layer features to Tor. > > After horrific bugs and even worse security problems in the code are > identified / repaired by tragically paranoid other punks, NeoTor takes off, > thwarting the deep state's end to end onion route monitoring network, and > so an urgent order is made upon Google to cease and decist from > distributing such nefarious software. > > Google of course complies immediately, and almost all users go back to > using old Tor. > > > The stranglehold Google and Apple have on not only limiting the average > user to approved software only, but to enforce total transparency upon all > developers to idetify themselves with 100 points of ID just to TEST their > software, and to pay some fiats for the priviledge whilst they're at it, is > ... a little less than satisfactory. > > Having experienced the pain of an Android phone, even after unlocking > still being locked into the garden and offered only "Google" or "XiaoMi" > when saving every contact (and never "local storage only"), and the pain of > finding and installing a rooted OS (_how_ many dozen options? I _still_ > have to choose Google or XiaoMi if I want to backup my contact list? > there's really _no_ easy option to just dump it to my laptop with an ad hoc > wireless?) > > ... it is evident I would be MORE than happy to pay $50 to make this pain > go away by having someone at my local computer club back up my address book > and install Debian on my phone. > > What we need is Debian on the phone. > > And we need this to be super easy for the average geek to install, and > thousands of average geeks need to start getting these donations to install > Debian on Android phones. Given how painful it is for someone supposedly > "technically literate", this ought be a fantastic business opportunity. > > > So Debian on mobile phones? It's possible. > > What is needed is a geek-able process whereby the "CyanogenMod" mobile > phone operating systems are split into an absolute minimal "bootloader + > kernel + drivers etc" for a specific device, and the operating system is a > separate install on top of that, and for those who care, Debian as the OS. > > > https://wiki.debian.org/Mobile > > http://www.tinkerphones.org/ > > https://lists.goldelico.com/mailman/listinfo.cgi/community > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-mobile/ > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-embedded/ > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-arm/ > > > https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/android-tools-devel > > https://wiki.debian.org/DebianOnHandhelds > >
