Part of why I advocate for buying Huawei, Xiaomi, or ZTE is because of this. Not that they can’t collect our data, but because of the terrible relationship between the Chinese and US’s intelligence communities
If you want something super-secure, you’d have to look to something like Purism’s Librem 5 or a PinePhone once those get out of beta, then do all your calls over encrypted, anonymous VoIP, and run everything through a VPN or Tor, and the convenience you’d lose when you’re not under active surveillance may not be worth the trade-off. Of course, if you were under active surveillance you’d probably use more burner phones anyway
Nice, I’m eyeing Xiaomi for my next Android phone because you can still get bootloader unlock codes from the company. Huawei has made the decision to lock all bootloaders, so no more rooting or LineageOS then:loudly crying face:
On mobile devices especially, I am concerned that our data may still collected by the manufacturer (e.g. Apple) even if VPN hides us from ISP
Part of why I advocate for buying Huawei, Xiaomi, or ZTE is because of this. Not that they can’t collect our data, but because of the terrible relationship between the Chinese and US’s intelligence communities
If you want something super-secure, you’d have to look to something like Purism’s Librem 5 or a PinePhone once those get out of beta, then do all your calls over encrypted, anonymous VoIP, and run everything through a VPN or Tor, and the convenience you’d lose when you’re not under active surveillance may not be worth the trade-off. Of course, if you were under active surveillance you’d probably use more burner phones anyway
I bought a Xiaomi phone about a year ago, it cost like $150 and has a longer battery life, and is better than any samsung phone I’ve ever had.
Nice, I’m eyeing Xiaomi for my next Android phone because you can still get bootloader unlock codes from the company. Huawei has made the decision to lock all bootloaders, so no more rooting or LineageOS then:loudly crying face:
Ahhh fuck. Yeah I can say even unlocking the bootloader on this Xiaomi wasn’t fun, but at least its doable.
Yeah, literally it’s the only criticism I have of Huawei