Linux phones are not automatically secure https://tuxphones.com/linux-mobile-devices-are-not-inherently-secure/

Channel
TuxPhones - Linux phones, tablets, wearables
@tuxphones
On this record: Topic · Growth · Engagement · Posts · Cite this entry
188subscribers
-4 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1001383131160 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @tuxphones |
| Created | Between 1 March 2018 and 31 July 2021 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 8 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 10 October 2026 |
| Measurements held | 6 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 10 October 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/tuxphones |
Topic
Technology — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 24 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 100% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.
Growth
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 10 Oct 2026, 01:58 | 188 | -1 |
| 30 Sept 2026, 00:55 | 189 | -1 |
| 15 Sept 2026, 08:38 | 190 | -1 |
| 29 Aug 2026, 01:47 | 191 | -1 |
| 8 Aug 2026, 11:50 | 192 | no change |
| 7 Aug 2026, 23:59 | 192 | first reading |
Engagement
20 posts held, back to 9 March 2022 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 page of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 20 posts for this entry, the most recent from 25 January 2023. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
Recent posts
Purism Librem 5 receives major camera update, video recording capabilities https://tuxphones.com/purism-librem-5-linux-phone-auto-camera-millipixels-app-photo-video-recording/
The PineTab2 is a new, faster Linux tablet - and it's not alone https://tuxphones.com/pinetab2-rk3586-linux-tablet-juno-tablet-fydetab-duo/
GNOME Shell is one step closer to Linux phones https://tuxphones.com/gnome-shell-43-linux-phone-pinephone-oneplus-performance-video/
Homebrew "rvPhone" aims to be the first RISC-V mobile experiment https://tuxphones.com/risc-v-phone-rvphone-imx8-esp32-sim7600x-e310-nlnet-majstor/
Vanilla OS offers an innovative, modernized "post-Debian" experience https://tuxphones.com/vanilla-os-linux-apx-immutable-system-upstream-lightweight-ubuntu/
An unexpected revival of Firefox OS https://tuxphones.com/capyloon-firefox-os-b2gos-linux/
Linux machines that just work https://tuxphones.com/linux-mobile-devices-just-work/
Relevant OT: https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/microsoft-blocks-tutanota-users-from-own-service/
The Pine Formula https://tuxphones.com/pine-formula/
Pixel 3A becomes the first device to achieve a 100% Ubuntu Touch support score https://tuxphones.com/google-pixel-3a-full-stable-ubports-linux-ubuntu-touch-feature-support/
First camera samples from the PinePhone Pro revealed https://tuxphones.com/pinephone-pro-sony-imx258-camera-demo-samples-mainline-linux/
Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @tuxphones. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
Cite this entry
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 10 October 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“TuxPhones - Linux phones, tablets, wearables” (@tuxphones), 188 subscribers as measured 10 October 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/tuxphones.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.