| I'm very happy to see that Sailfish keeps shipping because more alternatives are always good. I tried to use it a while ago (Sailfish 3) but was driven off it because of the huge gap between the marketing and the actual reality. The claim that they are privacy and security focused was total bogus (and perhaps someone can comment if it still is). To use the phone features, a Jolla account is needed, so it will "ping home to Jolla". Privacy policy is pretty standard, so they reserve the right to track you all they want and of course, this is tied to your license, payment method etc. So much for privacy focused... What fully drove me off was that they launched full disk "encryption", but the LUKS encryption-key password they used was the user's numeric pin (4-8 digits long). So encryption keys could be bruteforced by a kid and they seemed to be fine with it (I don't know if nowadays it supports a passphrase). Then I also learned that apps in the "app-store" were not signed in any way so impossible to certify that what you are installing is actually coming from the app repository etc. the phone was just lacking basic security all over the place. I hope they are closer now to closing the "gap" between their marketing and the reality. |