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/e/OS Is Better Than Android. You Should Try It (www.wired.com)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This is just not realistic though, as the support is so short. You cannot buy phones ever few years. Only thing you can realistically do is apply at least Lineage and exercise caution.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Denying reality isn't realistic either.

Knowing your threat model and being aware of your tradeoffs and decisions is useful. Maybe security isn't more important than longevity, but the phone owner should be making a deli rate choice.

With the new pixels having 7 years of support things are improving. It would be nice for them to open source the hardware specs at the end of the support window...

https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/4457705

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Who's going to be digging into the depths of a 5+ year old phone on the off chance they can find a baseband vulnerability though?

Even if they do find something, the number of people for them to exploit is probably going to be vanishingly small.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/18/22440813/android-devices-active-number-smartphones-google-2021

There are 3 billion Android devices. So basically everyone is incentivized to break in. Especially if the firmware is not updating, that means once you find an exploit it's good forever

Plus, and most people don't realize this, the same chips are used in multiple different phones. So you just have to break the baseband once, and you get into multiple different phone models