Google’s Android, the world’s most widely used mobile operating system, started life as open-source software. In its quest for ever-greater profits, the tech giant has been gradually eroding Android’s open-source capacity over the last decade.

Google’s Android, the world’s most widely used mobile operating system, started life as open-source software. In its quest for ever-greater profits, the tech giant has been gradually eroding Android’s open-source nature over the last decade.

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  • Turret3857@infosec.pubEnglish
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    9 hours ago

    root is a security risk on many security focused ROMs.

    See the 4th reply in this GrapheneOS thread

    and this from CalyxOS’s FAQ

    If you can link the xposed module though I wouldnt mind making a feature request and asking for the module itself to be integrated into their forks.