• Photon1c@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    I don’t know why this obvious disinformation has a 95% upvote ratio, but it’s a specific fork made by a guy who presumably sells (mainly) to criminals and the police having found a backdoor into that fork. Has nothing to do with any smear campaign against the entire OS.

    Check your facts people!

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    5 days ago

    I’ve never really considered grapheneos. But if this many governments hate it, it’s probably pretty good.

  • atrielienz@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    I don’t understand what legal grounds they have to seize the phones. Just installing a different rom shouldn’t be enough.

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      That depends whether the govt considers if you own your phone or not. In the latter case, they’d see it as breaking the law. Welcome to the renter culture worldwide

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    4 days ago

    The thread in question is about smear campaigns, from a brief skim I did not see any mention about them actually seizing Pixel phones? What did I miss?