The person was claiming that because they have a device that uses a AOSP fork (Android Open Source Project) that it's completely Google free.
However, consider this: "Android is an open source operating system for mobile devices and a corresponding open source project led by Google."
Google loves control and you can't tell me there aren't hooks in there somewhere.
Technically, AOSP systems don't have any Google services (mail, play, etc.) baked in - but I refuse to believe that google isn't in there somewhere.
Depends on what ROM you are running. It's completely open source code so if a dev wants to change or remove anything they can. If you own a pixel device you're screwed because google code is baked into the bootloader which is not open source. I would be more worried about the code baked into the hardware, than the code base of the OS. Cough (((Qualcomm))) cough cough...
just feed the open source code to code llama or chatgpt to inspect and look for back doors
I just don't trust Google.
the good : that's a very quaint idea. good thinking.
the reality : You have never really dealt with code before.
instead, as someone who uses chat GPT and two other AI Chats, whatever, more or less every day for coding, I say: " oh my son you have no idea what you are talking about "
also the good : maybe soon. especially if it was a Specialized, especially made , curated , supported .. partial focused AI system, then ... maybe
Really? You don't think code Llama or chatgpt4 would be of any use in identifying security holes, or collating connect() calls to hard coded ip addresses? Not even cross-checking CVEs against dependent libraries? Weird.
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