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FOSS is Working Against Itself

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Posted: 2022-01-27 (UTC+00:00)

Updated: 2022-11-09 (UTC+00:00)

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    Introduction

    The world has become a dangerous, privacy invading, human rights stripping, totalitarian place; in order to combat this, people are joining a growing, and dangerous, trend, which I will refer to in this post as the "Free and Open Source (FOSS) movement". With that stated, I will now debunk the misinformation being spread inside of this extremely flawed movement.

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    The FOSS movement is an attempt to regain @@ -79,7 +70,6 @@ and allows us to protect ourselves. Without security, we have no protection, and without protection, we have a lack of certainty of everything else, including privacy and control, which is what the FOSS movement is seeking.

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    FOSS projects rarely take security into account; they simply look at the surface level, rather than the actual ideology, privacy and control will *never* be achieved. There is no foundation to build privacy or control upon. It is impossible to build a solid, freedom respecting platform on this model.

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    Examples

    firmware, which just so happens to be almost all of them. "Linux phones" are not as free as they proclaim to be.

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    You may ask "What's so bad about using LineageOS?", to which I answer with "What's not bad about it?".
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    LineageOS is not the only Android OS (commonly, and incorrectly, referred to as a "ROM") with such issues, but it is one of the worst. The only things such insecure OSes can provide you are customisation abilities, and a backdoor to your data. They are best suited as a development OS, not a production OS.

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    Solution

    What can you do about this? The answer is simple; however, it does require you to use logic, fact, and evidence, not emotion, which is a difficult pill for most people to swallow. Use your @@ -166,7 +149,6 @@ proprietary, big tech and government entities, but it also means not taking sides with any FOSS entities. The only way to win this war is to take *whatever* hardware and software you can, and use it tactically.

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    The only solution for phone security, privacy, and control, is to use a Google Pixel (currently, Pixel 4a-series or newer) running guaranteed monthly security updates for the entire support timeframe of the devices.

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    Conclusion

    Use what you can, and do what you can. By neglecting security, you are, even if unintentionally, neglecting exactly what you are trying to gain; privacy and control.

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