[liberationtech] Advice on secure phones

[Marc Juul]

I'm not sure to what extent LineageOS is de-googlified on its own (e.g.
does it use a google server for captive portal detection? i'm not sure) but
https://e.foundation/ seems to have that more as a focus and ships with
microG as an alternative to google services. None of these makes your phone
secure as you still have at least the baseband processor running closed
firmware. You might want to look at librem or pinephone (with reverse
engineered baseband firmware).

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On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 3:34 PM Steve Phillips <steve at tryingtobeawesome.com>
wrote:

> LineageOS is solid. They start with AOSP (the open source core of Android)
> then add a few enhancements. You can decide how degoogled you want it to
> be. I once went too far and Google Maps wouldn't work right in the browser,
> but I dialed that back a little and it was perfect for me.
>
> I recently got a new Android phone and need to switch back to Lineage so
> that Google doesn't auto-steal ("auto-sync") my contacts and more...
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 11, 2021, 23:56 Sam de Silva <sam at edge.lk> wrote:
>
>> Hi all
>>
>> I’ve been doing some research into secure mobile phones. There’s
>> familiarity with ANOM and why not to use it, but there are also other such
>> secure mobile phones.
>>
>> There’s a few out there, or coming soon - such as ‘e
>> <https://e.foundation>’ and OSOM
>> <https://www.droid-life.com/2020/11/16/osom-is-building-a-privacy-phone-that-shouldnt-be-1000/>
>>  ….
>>
>> Curious to know if there’s anyone that’s researching this space, or has
>> any opinions on devices like OSOM.
>>
>> Thanks and best, Sam.
>>
>>
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>>
>> Sam de Silva / CommonEdge
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