Fairphone:
Fairphone 4 receives the monthly Android Security Bulletin patches 1-2 months late and the recommended Android security patches years late. For the past devices, they've also promised to provide many years of support but cut off security support after 2-3 years. That's not good.
Fairphone 4 is missing a secure element providing important standard hardware-based security features. It also has a completely broken implementation of verified boot and hardware-based attestation. Hardware wasn't configured securely. They'd need to fix this and likely didn't.
Even if they were able to support the Fairphone 5 as long as they claim, which has never held up in the past, we require proper security patches that are complete and delivered on time. Not acceptable to have the ASB patches always delayed by 1-2 months and other patches missed.
For their past devices, they make huge promises they end up being unable to keep. They said they'd support the Fairphone 4 for a long time too, but it's clear that it's not going to get security support for the whole lifetime which means their support promises are misleading.
For the existing devices, their definition of long support time has meant that when their device receives a final OS update from 2020 in 2022, they refer to it as receiving 2 more years of support than a device which received that as a final update in 2020. It makes little sense.
Pinephone:
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Librem:
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Is the Google pixel secure element open source?
Pixels use the open source Trusty OS and Open Titan as the basis for the TEE and RISC-V secure element.
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