Unlocked Firefox OS ZTE Open Is Now Available On eBay For For $80 122
SmartAboutThings writes "We've been hearing quite a lot lately about the Firefox OS, but there are actually only a few Firefox OS phones launched on the market. ZTE Open is one of them and is actually the first Firefox OS phone for consumers. Even if Firefox OS has support from carriers all over the world, it's pretty hard to sell devices in more locations across the world. To remedy that, ZTE is going to sell the Firefox OS Open phone on eBay for eighty dollars, which is actually ten dollars less than the launch price. A real great thing is that the handset will be off-contract and unlocked which means you will be able to use it on all mobile networks. ZTE didn't mention when exactly the device will go on sale on eBay, the company just mentioning 'soon.'"
Re:I'll hold out (Score:1, Interesting)
Idiots.
Its trivial to hide back doors in the hardware itself, which isn't 'open'.
You OSS fanboys really need to stop talking out your ass and realize its not the end all be all solution.
Unless I rebuild the binaries ... with a trusted GCC compiler (prepackaged doesn't imply trusted since I didnt build those binaries either), and bios, and every other component in the device, than I am no more sure than I was before I used an OSS OS.
If you manually confirm the source is safe yourself, you build all binaries yourself without ever touching untrusted/unverified code, than you are no better off than owning an iPhone.
All OSS can do is PROVE that it is not secure. It can not prove that that it IS secure. Get your facts straight, OSS does nothing to help you be more secure, just another buzzword you don't understand being used in a way that you heard someone else use it.