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Closed drivers need Android userspace -> Android panics or otherwise refuses to function if it decides it's SE Linux policy is compromised -> you still don't have control over the device.

And we're back to "just break into the thing you've already paid for." Nope. Go away. No more smartphone crap.



If you install custom firmware, you can control the SELinux policy that is configured and enforced by that firmware.


Ffs. Now we're requiring the aspiring tech user to develop fluency with not just applied cryptography, but SELinux?

Tech industry has completely lost the goddamn plot. Or more specifically, is doing everything it can to make it nigh impossible for the average user to navigate the info asymmetry to actually use the hardware they paid for.




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