There’s no “mobile Linux”. Linux supports Secure Boot just fine, and if a distro wants to sandbox applications that too is done by just configuring Linux to do so (after all, that’s what Android does).
Find me a phone that supports secure boot (which is not the same as verified boot btw), and a distro that will run on that phone that properly sandboxes applications (Flatpak does not count, as there are still many security flaws and missing xdg-portals in its implementation.)
Why? That has nothing to do with the topic we’re discussing. You can configure Linux as Android does it, or choose not to.
(Secure Boot is what enables “Verified boot” - which is just Android’s name for a common sense secure boot loader implementation which is the norm in well protected IoT systems etc)
/ex Sony Mobile dev, nowadays IoT hw/fw ethical hacker
Linux security on phones is not equivalent due to these factors
but Linux supports these things which are either not exact equivalents or would take an entire Dev team with full time funding to do
Can you find me a phone & OS that meets those requirements
Why? that has nothing to do with the topic of Linux security on phones?
are you being serious with me right now? what about my question wasn’t “on topic”? If the hardware and software don’t exist, its not going to happen and you’re making a hypothetical argument to a factual statement.
Linux does not suck on phones regarding security. Linux is what brings the security mechanisms faulty ascribed to as being “Android’s”. See previous posters claiming it was all “extensive modifications” by Android and not just Linux security mechanisms.
Feel free to get a Fairphone 4, sign your Ubuntu Touch image with keys supported by the chipset and off you go. The fact that no one is selling you that has no relevance whatsoever to whether “Linux” supports it.
Linux doesn’t have the same permission controls. SElinux profiles would need to be manually configured for each app which would take a lot of time.
Mobile linux also doesn’t support measured boot which is what is used to protect the system in the case of theft. Before I consider mobile Linux it would be nice if there was a detailed security review of the entire system.
There’s no “mobile Linux”. Linux supports Secure Boot just fine, and if a distro wants to sandbox applications that too is done by just configuring Linux to do so (after all, that’s what Android does).
Find me a phone that supports secure boot (which is not the same as verified boot btw), and a distro that will run on that phone that properly sandboxes applications (Flatpak does not count, as there are still many security flaws and missing xdg-portals in its implementation.)
Why? That has nothing to do with the topic we’re discussing. You can configure Linux as Android does it, or choose not to.
(Secure Boot is what enables “Verified boot” - which is just Android’s name for a common sense secure boot loader implementation which is the norm in well protected IoT systems etc)
/ex Sony Mobile dev, nowadays IoT hw/fw ethical hacker
are you being serious with me right now? what about my question wasn’t “on topic”? If the hardware and software don’t exist, its not going to happen and you’re making a hypothetical argument to a factual statement.
Linux does not suck on phones regarding security. Linux is what brings the security mechanisms faulty ascribed to as being “Android’s”. See previous posters claiming it was all “extensive modifications” by Android and not just Linux security mechanisms.
Feel free to get a Fairphone 4, sign your Ubuntu Touch image with keys supported by the chipset and off you go. The fact that no one is selling you that has no relevance whatsoever to whether “Linux” supports it.
Linux doesn’t have the same permission controls. SElinux profiles would need to be manually configured for each app which would take a lot of time.
Mobile linux also doesn’t support measured boot which is what is used to protect the system in the case of theft. Before I consider mobile Linux it would be nice if there was a detailed security review of the entire system.
I think this will sort itself out quicker if you show me what “mobile linux” is.
A Linux distro made for mobile devices? Like Plasma mobile, or Ubuntu touch, or Sailfish os
Ubuntu Touch, Postmarket OS and others