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[+] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (7 children)
  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Why? That has nothing to do with the topic we're discussing. You can configure Linux as Android does it, or choose not to.

    (Secure Boot is what enables "Verified boot" - which is just Android's name for a common sense secure boot loader implementation which is the norm in well protected IoT systems etc)

    /ex Sony Mobile dev, nowadays IoT hw/fw ethical hacker

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Android boots in layers that are encrypted with different keys. The first key in the TPM enlocks the base OS up to the lock screen. From there a pin is entered and the rest of the system is decrypted.

    If a compromise happened in the OS the phone would just fail to boot since the integrity of the system is validated by the TPM.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Yes, that's how a normal bootchain works in every system ever - like the IoT device running Linux I'm right now working with.

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  • [+] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)
  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Linux does not suck on phones regarding security. Linux is what brings the security mechanisms faulty ascribed to as being "Android's". See previous posters claiming it was all "extensive modifications" by Android and not just Linux security mechanisms.

    Feel free to get a Fairphone 4, sign your Ubuntu Touch image with keys supported by the chipset and off you go. The fact that no one is selling you that has no relevance whatsoever to whether "Linux" supports it.

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