Murena 2 is a de-Googled Android phone with a privacy kill switch that disconnects mic and cameracelmit@lemmy.ca to Android@lemmy.world – 340 points – 12 months agoliliputing.com73Post a CommentPreviewYou are viewing a single commentView all commentsLike other phones, this most likely won’t have open source firmware.What are you talking about? It's using e/OSFirmware, as in the drivers that control the hardware, like the radio, the Bluetooth, the NFC, the SIM decryptor, etc.Is there any open firmware for those modules?More or less, no. No hardware driver open source firmware exists for anything you'd want to buy But if you're interested in reading is excellent, please see these references https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replicant_(operating_system) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OsmocomBB https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-source_mobile_phones Some architectures like the pine phone, and the librim 5 try to isolate the proprietary blob so they have minimal collateral damage when they're exploited.
Like other phones, this most likely won’t have open source firmware.What are you talking about? It's using e/OSFirmware, as in the drivers that control the hardware, like the radio, the Bluetooth, the NFC, the SIM decryptor, etc.Is there any open firmware for those modules?More or less, no. No hardware driver open source firmware exists for anything you'd want to buy But if you're interested in reading is excellent, please see these references https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replicant_(operating_system) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OsmocomBB https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-source_mobile_phones Some architectures like the pine phone, and the librim 5 try to isolate the proprietary blob so they have minimal collateral damage when they're exploited.
What are you talking about? It's using e/OSFirmware, as in the drivers that control the hardware, like the radio, the Bluetooth, the NFC, the SIM decryptor, etc.Is there any open firmware for those modules?More or less, no. No hardware driver open source firmware exists for anything you'd want to buy But if you're interested in reading is excellent, please see these references https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replicant_(operating_system) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OsmocomBB https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-source_mobile_phones Some architectures like the pine phone, and the librim 5 try to isolate the proprietary blob so they have minimal collateral damage when they're exploited.
Firmware, as in the drivers that control the hardware, like the radio, the Bluetooth, the NFC, the SIM decryptor, etc.Is there any open firmware for those modules?More or less, no. No hardware driver open source firmware exists for anything you'd want to buy But if you're interested in reading is excellent, please see these references https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replicant_(operating_system) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OsmocomBB https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-source_mobile_phones Some architectures like the pine phone, and the librim 5 try to isolate the proprietary blob so they have minimal collateral damage when they're exploited.
Is there any open firmware for those modules?More or less, no. No hardware driver open source firmware exists for anything you'd want to buy But if you're interested in reading is excellent, please see these references https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replicant_(operating_system) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OsmocomBB https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-source_mobile_phones Some architectures like the pine phone, and the librim 5 try to isolate the proprietary blob so they have minimal collateral damage when they're exploited.
More or less, no. No hardware driver open source firmware exists for anything you'd want to buy But if you're interested in reading is excellent, please see these references https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replicant_(operating_system) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OsmocomBB https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-source_mobile_phones Some architectures like the pine phone, and the librim 5 try to isolate the proprietary blob so they have minimal collateral damage when they're exploited.
Like other phones, this most likely won’t have open source firmware.
What are you talking about? It's using e/OS
Firmware, as in the drivers that control the hardware, like the radio, the Bluetooth, the NFC, the SIM decryptor, etc.
Is there any open firmware for those modules?
More or less, no. No hardware driver open source firmware exists for anything you'd want to buy
But if you're interested in reading is excellent, please see these references
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replicant_(operating_system)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OsmocomBB
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-source_mobile_phones
Some architectures like the pine phone, and the librim 5 try to isolate the proprietary blob so they have minimal collateral damage when they're exploited.