Time for the rise of the Linux mobile system.
Google’s Android Lockdown: Are You Really in Control of Your Phone?
Fresh analysis of Android's controversial recent policy shift over APKs and developers.
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Like they would not lock down the hardware completely. You will need open source hardware also. Or find a way to VM it in a way. It's very concerning this.
Governments would never allow a thriving ecosystem and > 1% adoption of #opensourcehardware smartphones .. because that would mean significant loss of control.
I think the privacy aware x % of people and opensourcehardware device developers might have to settle on a compromise with governments on this. (In order to be allowed to keep encryption/data privacy at all.)
Something like:
Government accepts that the baseband (closed source) is strictly isolated from the main processing and can not spy.
Privacy advocates accept that the baseband will always be running even if the device is off so their location can practically always be tracked.
Pine64 make 2 Linux phones. I have one. It has hardware switches to turn things off like the madem, mic, speaker etc.
There are others out there.
Postmarketos Linux have ported Linux to a number of android phones successfully.
Google might & wouldn't surprise me, on their own phones & maybe coerce others to do the same. Slowly heading towards Apples territory!
Govts would applaud but only some customers would complain.