I am looking for SECURITY advice. i am currently using an Android phone from a China-based OEM that still receives security updates albeit 1-2 months delayed. There have been reports of possible back-doors in Chinese android phones 1 , 2 . Is there any validity to these claims or is it just powered by…

[image] lyhly: Is there an overlap between “Play system updates” (project mainline) and OTA system updates from the manufacturer? or do i still need both to be up to date to patch all vulnerabilities? I didn’t find much info about this from my searches. I note the count of issues patched via …

‘‘Is there any validity to these claims or is it just powered by FUD and “China bad” ?’’ Its as valid as claims that google pixels have back-doors or windows have back-doors.So yeah its mostly part of the red scare. ‘‘Do i need a phone that gets instant security updates’’ If your threat model is…

[image] lyhly: i am currently using an Android phone from a China-based OEM that still receives security updates albeit 1-2 months delayed. Well that’s 1-2 months for those exploits to be used against you I guess. Make of that what you want. [image] lyhly: There have been reports of poss…

Can share a few things. First, China is a bad country for privacy, as the government could compell to install backdoors. Second, it depend wheter you purchase the chinese version (ROM) or the international ROM. Third, I purchased a Xiaomi (Chinese ROM) and the security updates come in quarterly batc…

I disagree though. First, there are many apps that you can’t even disable or even see, so this is useful to remove them. This removes them from user0, so indeed they would come back in a work profile or another profile. I personally removed many Samsung System Apps, like Contacts and replaced them …

[image] anon80779245: I personally removed many Samsung System Apps, like Contacts and replaced them with an FOSS alternative. On Samsung, you can’t even disable the news app, so ADB is very useful. Figures samsung would do something like that. Even in the stock Google OS you can normally dis…

Removing apps with ADB is putting your head in the sand when you still have a bunch of daemons running in the background. If it is your only option, then fine, but it overlooks a lot.

[image] Hexa: Better be safe then dead. Not death, you will just get disappeared and get a good old zapping. [image] Hexa: Graphene os on pixel is definition of a phone that both secure and just works. AOSP is functional but bare bones, It misses a lot of the niceties that you come to…

Just my 2 cents, i am just a normal user with little tech knowledge, the “Souces” I supplied are not research papers so take with a (huge) grain of salt. If your concerns including your device being decrypted by your own government, look away from brands like Xiaomi and Samsung, consider Apple iPho…

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dngray (Daniel Gray) April 20, 2024, 5:14am 6

This simply uninstalls for current user, doesn’t remove from system partition. It’s really no better than just “disabling” the app with the UI as I pointed out in this post.

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