I assume you’re using it with bootloader unlocked. The issue is somehow some malware injects your phone and roots it, it can just install itself as a system service and just live there and you’ll never know. The security feature that protects against it is disabled once bootloader is unlocked.
Also I’ve heard that LineageOS has not all security updates present since some firmware updates needs to be provided by the specific manufacturer. For Pixel, Google provides it and GOS uses it.
Yeah it’s ironic but what is the alternative? At least we CAN remove Google’s known spyware from the device, and there’s no evidence of firmware level spying. If you get Samsung, or some chinese crap, you can’t remove Google period, and you might get spied by the manufacturer as a cherry on top. There is no way to have a perfect solution, well unless Samsung starts to provide Custom ROM support or something.
What about simplex? It looks like it uses random message queues for each connection (contact) and once deleted from devices then it doesn’t look likethere is any solid way of identifying if a connection existed…
(NB: simplex don’t have an account for a user in their cloud at all because of how it works so recovery is impossible without latest backups, so that’s a no go for me)
lol that’s pretty desperate… A better idea I think is let all of us privacy minded individuals from the world migrate t ONE country specifically thereby becoming a major force or even the majority of them. Then we can have like minded politicians and government that can help us protect our privacy. An island in this shit world.
What about swiss or sweden? Are they good?
Not exactly good but the way I do it is to use a USB HDD to have backups and E2EE cloud solutions