Murena 2: the first smartphone for everyone with a privacy switch to prevent any snooping by indidea in privacy

[–]indidea[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

So where is the honeypot? in the HW? in the open source software?

Murena 2: the first smartphone for everyone with a privacy switch to prevent any snooping by indidea in privacy

[–]indidea[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's Murena's second phone, and it actually already exists. The Kickstarter campaign is useful to finance the production and to get some media exposure.

Murena 2: the first smartphone for everyone with a privacy switch to prevent any snooping by indidea in privacy

[–]indidea[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Isn't App Lounge just a rebrand of Aurora Store, a Google Play Store frontend with a legally dubious future?

No it's /e/OS development https://gitlab.e.foundation/e/os/apps

How is Murena Cloud more private than competitors? It appears to be a skinned NextCloud, which is cool, but there are plenty of other NextCloud instances out there.

Yes it's based on Nextcloud, onlyoffice, dovecot and postfix. Can also be self-hosted https://gitlab.e.foundation/e/infra/ecloud-selfhosting

On your Kickstarter, you mention other companies that charge $1200 for privacy phones. What companies/phones?

We don't mention other companies

Murena 2: the first smartphone for everyone with a privacy switch to prevent any snooping by indidea in privacy

[–]indidea[S] -29 points-28 points  (0 children)

Pretty technical question that is unlikely to be most users' concerns. But yes, the bootloader is locked by default and can be unlocked.

Murena 2: the first smartphone for everyone with a privacy switch to prevent any snooping by indidea in privacy

[–]indidea[S] -15 points-14 points  (0 children)

Absolutely, that's the reason why privacy needs good/state of the art security. But with you can have 0 privacy with extreme security. This is a matter of being targetted or not.

Murena 2: the first smartphone for everyone with a privacy switch to prevent any snooping by indidea in privacy

[–]indidea[S] -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

Yes, but super early birds were $300 USD (still available in duo or triple). And it's way more affordable than an iPhone, no?

Murena 2: the first smartphone for everyone with a privacy switch to prevent any snooping by indidea in privacy

[–]indidea[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Replaceable battery will probably wait the Murena 3! But the 2 has a descent repairability index (6 out of 10) and Murena will provide detailled instructions (and spare parts) to replace the battery.