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Well summarised.

Another point is (often )the apps that banks makes are 3rd party developed by outsourcing (even if within the same developed country). If someone uses some MiTM or logcat to see some traffic and publishes it then banks get bad publicity. So to prevent this the banks, devs tell anything that is not normal (i.e) non-stock ROM is bad.

FOSS is also something many app-based software devs don't like on their products. While people in cloud, infra like it the app devs like these tools while developing or building a company but not when making end resulting apps.


It would but how and who to run it? Ideally some one like Linux Foundation sits on the White house meetings or EU meetings. But they don't. Govts don't understand. I was once participating in a Youth meeting with MEPs - most of them have only iPhones. Most (not all) lawmakers live on a different planet.

Also IIRC, linux foundation etc are not interested in doing such standardisations.


You could tell this sort of insinuation to anyone. Including you.

Argument should be technical.


Insinuation? As a sw dev they don't have any agency over whether or by whom they get acquired. Their decision will be whether to leave if it's changing to the worse, and that's very much understandable (and arguably the ethical thing to do).

That's a perfectly valid objection to this proposal. You only have to look at what happened to Hashicorp to see the risk.

Technical arguments pave the road to hell.

Well he is called faust…

> You could tell this sort of insinuation to anyone. Including you.

Yes. You correctly stated the important point.


> Argument should be technical.

Yes. Aleksa made no technical argument.


this. Especially USA may use all those gold to build a Gold White House.

1. google can arbitrarily revoke key. Countries can revoke key.

3. Like the amazing malicious crapware from PlayStore that they allow. They don't reject that.

4. Grandma installs crap mainly from PlayStore


> like what we do on OSX.

You are on macOS. Not others. You are following Apple. We don't.


Not in EU

People often give bs reasons like

- oh. I like night time camera from 1K pixel or iPhone


> I pay Apple premium price for their phones. If they become as bad as the other, what’s the point to pay so much ?

No choice. Most Apple users usually defend by telling... they are not as bad a Google or now it is impossible to escape ecosystem.


This kind of articles is moot.

- Will the author use it daily? Forever?

- price point? Many people cannot afford that.

> Not Android with Google quietly running 47 background processes to figure out whether you’re sad enough to buy ice cream.

BS. Look at all the background processes in any device? Even stock debian or postmarket OS.

> According to research from the Electronic Frontier Foundation and multiple independent security audits. Open source operating systems like Sailfish provide significantly more transparency than closed source alternatives. You can actually see what the code is doing instead of just taking a company’s word for it.

No references.

EFF says this also:

https://ssd.eff.org/module/your-security-plan

Trying to protect all your data from everything all the time is impractical and exhausting.

In computer security, a threat is a potential event that could undermine your efforts to defend your data. You can counter the threats you face by determining what you need to protect and from whom you need to protect it. This is the process of security planning, often referred to as “threat modeling .”


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