Just wondering if anyone knows anything about the soon to be released UP Phone (see unplugged dot com)? I never heard about it till today when a friend sent me an interview with Erik Prince (one of the founders and former Navy Seal and founder of Blackwater… yikes) on Shawn Ryan’s YouTube channel. I…

Big no for a litany of reasons. Their Anti-Virus is a GPL violating fork of my Hypatia and they even still download databases from my server: VirusTotal See also the questionable apps they have: list of apps on the unplugged "app store" returned from /api/store/app?size=10000 · GitHub

Please no. We have a fu**load of “”“secure phones”“” already. Use GrapheneOS.

Yeah, and there a lot of other red flags I’ve found.

Appreciate the clarification! And thanks for Hypatia and VirusTotal… I’ve made especially good use of the latter.

Yep, been using a GOS for about 3 years now. Far and away the best mobile OS there is!

[image] anon63378630: Their Anti-Virus is a GPL violating fork of my Hypatia Wow. If I may, are you in touch with sfconservancy.org or fsf.org or similar orgs that help developers / FOSS projects enforce xGPL compliance?

Can you explain what those links mean for the uninitiated?

[image] deadorbit: explain what those links mean for the uninitiated? They stole other people’s work (in this case, forking FOSS apps without attribution) is the allegation.

Looks like these folks pulling a “Purism”, their messenger is just a skinned version of element.

GrapheneOS absolutely destroyed Unplugged: 1/2 https://x.com/GrapheneOS/status/1804634097442324989 2/2 https://x.com/GrapheneOS/status/1808159435245646046

Both links point to the same tweet :sweat_smile:.

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securitybrahh (Sovereign Shadow) July 11, 2024, 7:59pm 17

I am pretty confident that, this is indeed honeypot.

https://discuss.techlore.tech/t/up-smartphone-a-potential-honeypot/

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