12-03-2020, 07:18 AM
In the first place PinePhone is not entirely privacy phone. Remember that it has Quectel modem which has it's own Linux based operating system. So there are backdoors probably. Maybe not NSA but chinese almost for sure.
I know it's connected to the main system using USB bus but that does not guarantee anything.
In my view - unless we have entirely open firmware for the modem there is no way PinePhone may be called privacy focused device.
I know it's connected to the main system using USB bus but that does not guarantee anything.
In my view - unless we have entirely open firmware for the modem there is no way PinePhone may be called privacy focused device.
