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  • I don’t usually use plugins on the Android version. I don’t use the Android much, actually, just due to my use patterns. There’s actually several different KeePass Android apps. KeePass is open source and the database format is documented. So anybody can make a program that uses the same database. The one I use is Keepass2Android, seems to be one of the popular ones. Looks like it also can natively generate TOTP. Apparently it has some sort of plugin system, but I’ve never needed to use it because it can pull my password database out of my Google Drive natively.

    You need to specify what kind of passkey to be more specific. There’s several different algorithms. HOTP and TOTP are very widely used. It’s what Google Authenticator and the like use. If you have something very proprietary, like the old RSA keys, that probably can’t be emulated by any software. Or they could, but you can’t get the secret to be able to do that.








  • Alot of these sellers on Alibaba aren’t nearly up to what an ODM is. They’re sorta more like middlemen that do stuff like take generic phones from ODMs and customize them or just grab parts off the local market and slap them together. To work with somebody like Foxconn, you’d better have some significant volumes - they just won’t talk to you otherwise. Now, maybe Trump is an exception there, but they’re still not going to want to do business unless there’s decent volume in it for them. The volumes I’ve seen for this phone is the sort of thing that wouldn’t even register for them. They’d only even think about it as a way to buy favor.






  • There’s not really a reason to be upset with a phone running a privacy focused version of Android. Android, at heart, is Linux with some runtime stuff on top. The runtime stuff has open source versions that Google is involved with, but its still open source. There’s also independent reimplementations of some of the proprietary Google stuff.

    The thing is, there’s really only 2 mobile platforms with any sort of application support: iOS and Android. iOS will probably never have open source versions. If you go outside those 2 platforms, you end up being very limited. You can talk to Amazon, Mozilla, Canonical, Microsoft, Palm, BlackBerry, and others about what that world looks like. So, if you want to have any application support and therefore any traction, the best bet is to take something that’s already mostly open source, reimplement the non open source bits, and make sure what’s left doesn’t depend on Google (though most have a way to use Google services, often is a restricted way, if you need that). That’s what /e/OS and GrapheneOS do.