<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><title>MetropleX [GrapheneOS] ⚡🟣🟠 wrote</title><author_name>MetropleX [GrapheneOS] ⚡🟣🟠 (npub1gd…7cn8c)</author_name><author_url>https://nostr.now/npub1gd3h5vg6zhcuy5a46crh32m4gjkx8xugu95wwgj2jqx55sfgxxpst7cn8c</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://nostr.now</provider_url><html>Librem 5 is an insecure device not meeting the basic security requirements. It&#39;s heavily marketed as secure but in reality has very poor security compared to an iPhone or Pixel. Also not open hardware and doesn&#39;t have open firmware despite misleading marketing.&#xA;&#xA;Librem 5 is even closed in ways that the Pixel hardware is not for example. &#xA;&#xA;Librem phones are incredibly insecure and massively roll back privacy and security. They&#39;re ideologically opposed to providing a secure SoC configuration, choosing secure components and shipping security updates since they&#39;re against updating firmware and securing it properly.&#xA;&#xA;Running an OS without any real application privacy/security model and basic standard defences would not be an improvement over an AOSP-based OS but rather a massive regression. Librem 5 is misrepresented as open hardware. It is not and are insecure devices.&#xA;&#xA;Devices with obsolete components without proper security support and without basic industry standard hardware security features. They&#39;re missing far too much of the required functionality including most hardware security features. It&#39;s far from their priority.&#xA;&#xA;They use traditional desktop software with a barely existent application privacy/security model not at the point that it works, nearly non-existent hardware security feature support, lack of adoption of memory safe languages, sandboxing and modern exploit mitigations, etc.&#xA;&#xA;While I appreciate why you might believe it and think that it is helpful, this is very flawed advice. Librem 5 has much lower privacy and security than an iPhone. It&#39;s missing tons of standard privacy/security features and massively rolls things back by a decade.&#xA;&#xA;This also covers why GrapheneOS doesn&#39;t support it and others like Pinephone. We have serious issues with the false and misleading claims used to market those products, and also many similar &#39;secure&#39; and &#39;private&#39; products. We have no interest when misleading users into thinking they provide secure devices.&#xA;&#xA;Read more from our lead dev:&#xA;https://nitter.net/DanielMicay/status/1341484614704123905?s=20</html></oembed>