This means a pickpocket or airport security control can’t take a copy of your system image via USB and brute force your few-digit passcode in a virtual machine without guess rate limiting. If they crack it, they can start using your user accounts and whatever information is on the phone.
this was one of the things i’ve been waiting for! i was leaning towards graphene because of the bootloader lock, but i don’t want a pixel.
the next problem i have to wait for is better support for the network bands in north america. i know from experience that the bands that fairphone supports are the same that my chinese phones supported in the past; which meant that i got no signal inside of large buildings and had to rely on wifi. i’ve never heard of shiftphone nor teracube, so i hope that their band support is better.
With /e/OS, the bootloader can be relocked on Fairphone, Shiftphone, Teracube, and Google Pixel, and they are sold locked by Murena. https://community.e.foundation/t/list-devices-where-bootloader-can-be-relocked/48424
This means a pickpocket or airport security control can’t take a copy of your system image via USB and brute force your few-digit passcode in a virtual machine without guess rate limiting. If they crack it, they can start using your user accounts and whatever information is on the phone.
With LineageOS, relocking is not so rosy: https://wiki.lineageos.org/faq#canshould-i-relock-my-bootloader
https://forum.fairphone.com/t/relock-fp5-keeping-lineageos/108723
https://www.reddit.com/r/LineageOS/comments/n7yo7u/a_discussion_about_bootloader_lockingunlocking/
https://xdaforums.com/t/solved-can-i-re-oem-lock-my-bootloader-after-installing-lineageos.4692135/#post-89707810
this was one of the things i’ve been waiting for! i was leaning towards graphene because of the bootloader lock, but i don’t want a pixel.
the next problem i have to wait for is better support for the network bands in north america. i know from experience that the bands that fairphone supports are the same that my chinese phones supported in the past; which meant that i got no signal inside of large buildings and had to rely on wifi. i’ve never heard of shiftphone nor teracube, so i hope that their band support is better.