this post was submitted on 17 Sep 2023
149 points (82.8% liked)

Privacy

31782 readers
342 users here now

A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.

Some Rules

Related communities

Chat rooms

much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

what is proprietary about a locked bootloader? the only android fork i can recommend is GrapheneOS. you relock the bootloader on that as well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh, I though you were talking about lock out and findmydevice

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

find my device would be more difficult to implement without a decently sized company backing it but a lock out function wouldn't be that difficult. it just needs to be implemented into the os itself rather than rely on the trustworthiness of a third party dev.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I use a app on F-droid called findmydevice. It can use a custom server but I just opted to SMS via a password