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Murena is launching a smartphone with a hardware kill switch again (mastodon.social)

submitted 1 day ago by Fairgreen@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Post reads: "❓ Do you know who are the inventors of the hardware-level kill switch for smartphones?

🤫 Stay tuned! We’re teaming up with them to offer you more privacy.

👇 Share your ideas in the comments! "

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[–] Fairgreen@lemmy.world 12 points 15 hours ago

No worries Google's actions against installing apks from outside the Play Store will only influence Android, not any of the other operating systems that are based on the Android Open Source Project (AOSP)