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Murena is launching a smartphone with a hardware kill switch again (mastodon.social)

submitted 2 days ago by Fairgreen@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Post reads: "❓ Do you know who are the inventors of the hardware-level kill switch for smartphones?

🤫 Stay tuned! We’re teaming up with them to offer you more privacy.

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[+] Luffy879@lemmy.ml -13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

You are back with your Spam

NOT on by default

This is a Private OS. They should not have this integration, since there are more than enough FOSS alternatives.

for paying customers only

Dosent change my point.

tries to anonymize the data

Tries. Tries. Tries.

They claim to be private. They incorporate a non private Service even though there are valid alternatives. Thats where this discussion starts and ends.

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 0 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Graphene literally ships with the play store and services. That's worse

[–] Luffy879@lemmy.ml 0 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

It does not.

You can install a Sandboxed Version of it, but not more

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 1 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

It being sandboxed doesn't prevent it from doing whatever the fuck it wants within the confines of the sandbox, and that sandbox has to be pretty wide to be functional.

Like, which is worse:

An os that ships with an opt-in kinda privacy unfriendly locked behind a paywall.
An os that ships google play services, which you need to give all sorts of permissions for apps to function, and requires a google account.

To quote you:

They claim to be private. They incorporate a non private Service even though there are valid alternatives. Thats where this discussion starts and ends.

See how that applies to graphene shipping google play services instead of microG?

[–] utopiah@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 days ago

back with your Spam

Try it, report me for spam to the mods I'd be curious to hear their opinion.