Website to unlock bootloader not working

[mossroy]

@NGnius

Either way it’s not the end of the world if you have to wait a day or two to unlock your phone, as long as it’s possible.

I would usually tend to agree with you. But there are many cases where it’s a much bigger problem.
The case of flash-parties is one of them. You have a time constraint, where people have gathered to flash devices. Some of them can have made a long travel for that.
Another one is if Fairphone company has been hacked, or simply goes bankrupt. We can hope the values of Fairphone would not be forgotten in this case, and they would release an offline tool. But no one can predict what would really happen in such extreme case

@anon32471517

That’s because we deliver our devices to several parties, not only directly to consumers. For security reasons some years back we allowed this way to unlock your bootloader as a working compromise between a completely unlockable bootloader and a fully locked bootloader. This balances the needs of our community with the requirements of some sales partners.

Thanks @AnotherElk for the reference.
I don’t understand what is the security reason here. Is it to make sure sales partners do not unlock the bootloader to sell devices with crafted ROMs?

Anyway, I complain about that procedure, but that depends on with which manufacturer you compare to:
Some other manufacturers (like Samsung) provide an offline way to unlock the bootloader (not for all models), but do not allow to lock it back afterwards. And many manufacturers do not allow to unlock at all, or have awful online procedures (like Xiaomi, which forces an arbitrary delay between the unlocking request and actual unlocking)