In hindsight, I should’ve added a few more…
Repairability/sustainability: Easy to repair, sustainably produced.
Ethics: Anti-Big Tech (no Apple, no Samsung etc.), good workers’ rights and supply chain. Preferably European.
Privacy: Speaks for itself. Privacy or anonymity, measures that foster it rather than feed data to others.
I feel like Fairphone would hit the Repairability and likely also Ethics (since it’s a certified B corporation), but for Privacy, it’d be a Google Pixel with GrapheneOS… but it’s Google, and given the CLOUD Act…
Maybe I could add accessibility there too, interface customisation (I like the iOS interface ways, but still, it’s Apple), but that’s a separate category.
GrapheneOS is FOSS though? We don’t have to trust. If you want to, you can look at the source code yourself
Yes, but will you? In reality it takes trust for most. Personally, I don’t think I could tell a sophisticated back door [pervy emoji] from a hello world! script.
[me looking at the source code] Interesting… they used words here and a few numbers too. 🔍🤔
I won’t, but the code being open makes it easy for third parties to inspect. So I suppose I’d be trusting that other people who are savvier and more paranoid than me have taken a look and made sure it’s safe.
Yeah, I mean I feel pretty confident trusting stuff like Graphene that’s 1) open source, 2) popular 3) among techy people that 4) are obsessed about privacy and security