• Possibly linux@lemmy.zipOP
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    1 year ago

    True so don’t lose your phone. Its encrypted and you can use third party apps to auto wipe under certain circumstances

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      1 year ago

      the more third party apps you have, the higher your attack surface and a decrease in security. I love my mods but this isn’t really a solution and should be an os feature.

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          1 year ago

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

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              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.

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                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

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      1 year ago

      True but I work outside and have lost devices before sometimes it is out of are control and we still misplace devices especially when the fall out a pocket I was only pointing out I personally won’t use it for that reason is all I still would rather use Lineage OS over Graphene OS but I don’t think I will because of that one thing. I am looking at buying a used pixel hopefully soon.