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by goodpoint 1740 days ago
> app sandboxing is huge difference alone. Is anyone implementing it?

No, sandboxing exists in Linux and tools like firejail are built-in in Debian/Mobian.

> How are app specific permissions handled?

With fine grained security profiles.

Besides, this is all largely irrelevant when the average android TORCH app is a blob of closed source code that can do telemetries.

Contrasted to FOSS applications developed in the open, reviewed by package managers and users, built reproducibly.

> How full e2ee or secure boot is implemented?

It's there and it works. And secure boot is really unimportant for the attack vectors of most phones.

> By default, you have to add alot in top of Linux kernel.

Not at all, it's all supported by seccomp, cgroups and co.