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Your choices are very limited, but you can get an android phone supported by LineageOS or other alternative roms.

I have tried, a long time ago, LineageOS on Samsung Galaxy S3 and S4. The both of the ports were so buggy, that by those experiences I could not trust the maintainers to be capable of securing the system. It may have been a false assumption, but I had to think stability/bugs and security must correlate at some levels.

Actually if you link popular software with a hardened memory allocator, apps will just crash a lot instead of allowing buffer overflows that are shockingly common.

YOLO mallocs most operating systems ship allow an application to -feel- faster and more stable at the expense of security.

If you want software to be stable in a strict malloc environment, write it in rust :)

To be fair though, LineageOS security is actually terrible. Do not use it. If you must have an Android device CalyxOS is the least bad option today.

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