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Months ago my phone died and now I need 1+ man-week to de-backdoor my new Pixel 4. Being mostly phoneless warms me up to a simple device that respects my rights out of the box. Continuing phone detox until I get a Pinephone or Librem 5. I'm done funding #SurveillanceCapitalism twitter.com/ashk4n/status/

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Neither of the devices is open hardware and neither has open firmware, despite misconceptions created by misleading marketing. The Librem 5 is deliberately locked down to prevent updating the firmware. Neither is close to the security requirements for official GrapheneOS support.

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See grapheneos.org/faq#device-sup for an overview of device support including the requirements for official support. We can't provide official support for insecure devices with vulnerabilities that can't be patched. Similarly, the hardware needs to provide the standard hardware-based

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security features including the hardware-backed keystores used by the OS and apps, support for real verified boot and attestation, modern mitigations, proper IOMMU integration / setup for the components, hardware key derivation support, Wi-Fi anonymity beyond just MAC rand, etc.

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Not going to list all of the requirements/expectations here but it's a given that we are not going to give it up in exchange for insecure hardware from untrustworthy companies pushing proprietary hardware and firmware as open and more private/secure while being objectively worse.

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Don't see any reason that open source userspace driver components would require hardware that takes so many steps backwards and throws away so much progress. We'll be very excited to support actual open hardware/firmware RISC-V phones built to meet existing security standards.

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Certainly not hardware rolling nearly everything back so much while not even actually being more open. Don't need new hardware just to get rid of the proprietary userspace vendor components, especially when the SoC vendor is actively doing a lot the work: linaro.org/blog/dragonboa.

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