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Today's Topics:

1. Re: Privacy ethics of smartphone manufacturers (nick robinson)


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Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 16:32:22 +0100
From: nick robinson <nick@njrobinson.net>
To: Bristol and Bath Linux User Group <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [bristol] Privacy ethics of smartphone manufacturers
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Hi

If you check out xda-developers you could find custom roms for most phones,
not only cyanogenmod

kind regards

On 5 September 2015 at 15:13, Y Martin <ym2013@riseup.net> wrote:

> Hi
>
> I am interested in buying a smartphone and flashing it with Cyanogen Mod
> (an open source firmware). When I heard in the Snowden cables
> about how Apple actively collaborates with the NSA in installing
> backdoors into iPhones it made me not want to touch Apple hardware.
>
> I also read about a report of China being up to the same misdeeds with
> Huawei and ZTE:
> http://www.cnet.com/news/lawmakers-to-u-s-companies-dont-buy-huawei-zte/
>
> Google are a bit too creepy for my liking.
>
> Given that Cyanogen Mod is not supported on Nokia phones, that rules 5
> manufacturers out so far. The remaining seem to be:
> Samsung
> Sony
> HTC
> LG
> Motorola
>
> It would be good to get a clearer picture of the smartphone market from
> the perspective of privacy ethics. Can anyone provide any further
> information about the privacy ethics of these or any further companies?
> There must be some existing reviews or good articles out there about
> this topic.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Yousef
>
> P.S. I know that the idea of 'smartphone-security' is a bit of a
> contradiction, but I would prefer to give my money to companies that do
> not sell out on their consumers' rights to privacy.
>
> P.P.S. No I dont have the money for a Blackphone2!
>
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