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The support length only makes a difference if you don't replace devices on the expected 2-3 year cycle covered by the support period. Stock Android and AOSP already have quite good security and AOSP exists as an alternative to the stock OS already.

Daniel Micay

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I'm going to be spending my limited time and resources on privacy and security research, not maintaining production quality releases of AOSP including a bunch of hardening features with an extremely high maintenance burden. I would need a team of developers to share the workload.

6:04 PM · Nov 2, 2018Twitter Web Client

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I won't be doing any substantial work without compensation anymore, and I'll no longer be working 60-100 hour work weeks for years with no vacations. I also won't waste the majority of my time on porting, release engineering, debugging/fixing upstream bugs and other maintenance.

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That means it's a hard requirement for there to be a team of developers sharing the maintenance workload, so I only need to do a small fraction of it and can focus on privacy and security hardening. There's no point of a hardened AOSP variant without compelling hardening anyway.