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by fsflover 285 days ago
GNU/Linux phones.
2 comments

Name three?

Unfortunately, "reasonable" generally means "can do the things typically done with smartphones these days", which include things like banking, media streaming, and civic stuff - things mediated by the very systems whose vendors aren't just embracing remote attestation, but actually driving its proliferation.

For better or worse[0], this is not a technical problem - it's a social/political one. Technology created it, by making remote attestation possible - but the actual problem is with why companies want to use it.

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[0] - Definitely worse. Technical problems are easy.

Maybe you need two phones then, one for the civic stuff and the other for private communication.
I don't care about this kind of private communication. I care about automating and debullshittifying my life, which includes stuff like banking and civics.

I didn't learn to program computers so I could use it to shitpost more privately. I learned it so I can make machines deal with things for me the way I want them to.

Perhaps just websites for communication then, through tor or some other protocols.
> Name three?

Openmoko, Pinephone, Librem 5

Are there any that aren't laughably insecure? No? Oh well.
According to which threat model?