• Jongaros@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Patriot act requires them to do so. I am gonna guess they probably will unless they want to go to federal prison.

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      1 year ago

      Jokes on them. Run Linux phone, Android apps become useless. The PinePhones have the modem as an isolated module from the rest of the phone, connected via USB, so the modem can’t do anything too invasive.

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        1 year ago

        You can technically bypass anything. Purpose of these type of laws is not catch all to access every single information under the sun. Real goal is make it so inconvenient and damaging to people material beings that 99.99% of the people rather give up their rights, data and freedom.

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      1 year ago

      You’re right. I hadn’t even checked where GrapheneOS was based, that’s bad.