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Fairphone Is Finally Selling Its Repairable Phone in the US (www.wired.com)
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[–] 7 points 2 months ago (6 children)

It really depends on what security level you want out of a phone. Most people are concerned with a pickpocket stealing and being able to access everything. Most of the world doesn't need the security level required to pass through the united states border control. Which they will just force to put the pin anyways or put you in jail for even having a secure device.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    It really depends on what security level you want out of a phone

    It does, but that's exactly my point. GrapheneOS will provide you essentially no more security than any other alternative Android operating system, should it have to operate on a Fairphone with all those features not supported by a Fairphone stripped away.

    Unless Fairphone adds more hardware security features that are standard on most other phones, and highly supported on Pixels, installing a heavily crippled GrapheneOS on a Fairphone would get you essentially none of the benefits of GrapheneOS in the first place.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    once again, that is completely false. I'm fed up with all the people pretending that all grapheneos adds is hardware security.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (2 children)

    If the features you want are still in software like degoogling, you have other options available

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    Well sans duress password being a good idea now, when you get to the border, you can either unlock it or they'll just confiscate it. You don't get to be on their list and go through with a phone because they can't manage to decrypt it.

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