Why in the world should I trust OnePlus?

[Papamalo]

With more than one back door app uploading logs, of everything from MAC numbers to when the hand set was on or locked. I was just considering getting on for myself, and several others for my employees, but now I don't think I would ever trust the company.

Thoughts?

Thanks!

 

[psionandy]

Well... in that case add them to the list of companies you can't trust for this sort of thing.

Toshiba
Leonovo
Samsung
Motorola
LG
Verizon.


Hope you enjoy your new Iphones... (although you might still be safe with a set of blackberrys)

 

[Phalon4]

With more than one back door app uploading logs, of everything from MAC numbers to when the hand set was on or locked. I was just considering getting on for myself, and several others for my employees, but now I don't think I would ever trust the company.

Thoughts?

Thanks!

I hate to say this but unfortunately if you running a business it's best to use a Windows 10 phone, they have a more secure format and less hacking issues because Microsoft ® Windows don't allow Open Source apps to invade their devices.

 

[Hadron]

Unfortunately it's also a dead platform, so not a long term solution.

 

[Papamalo]

Yikes. So, pardon me for showing up late to the party with a cheap bottle of wine, but are the recent allegations with OnePlus any different in nature or function from the list of companies Psionandy provided? And what can be done?
Example:
https://www.chrisdcmoore.co.uk/post/oneplus-analytics/

 

[Papamalo]

Unfortunately it's also a dead platform, so not a long term solution.

Do you mean Oxygen is a dead platform, or are you talking abut windows 10 phone?
Thanks!
B

 

[dontpanicbobby]

I would trust them because they only make enough they know they can sell. Saw that on a recent BBC news show.
I'm glad they got rid of that invitation only nonsense.

 

[Hadron]

Do you mean Oxygen is a dead platform, or are you talking abut windows 10 phone?
Thanks!
B

Windows phone is a dead platform. Oxygen is just OnePlus's android skin, so not a platform in the first place.

I assume that the statement about android being less secure because it allows "open source" apps was supposed to mean "unknown sources". Allowing the user to install apps from anywhere (if you enable the option) does increase risks, but that's nothing to do with open vs closed source - indeed with a closed source app it's easier to hide dodgy stuff. Of course if it's just your own phone you can just not enable the option.

OnePlus's uploading detailed data without asking for consent and brazening it out when challenged was possibly the most blatant example I can think of in recent years. Whether actually worse than some of the other companies named I can't say, as I'd have to remind myself what those others did (though I recall Lenovo doing stuff like that on laptops, so can believe it of their phones).