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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (18 children)
[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (17 children)
  1. Quarantined google play services on an alternate profile was a big sell for me. I don't use anything google related in my day to day but occasionally I need traffic updates or alternative routes and I'm forced to use google maps. There's a few other exceptions where I very rarely will need to use google play services.

In those situations, I can boot to an alternate profile for each app I need to use, and I know google is unable to harvest the majority of my data.

  1. GrapheneOS has hardened security compared to lineageOS.

  2. LineageOS did some type of takeover on cyanogenmod and I forget the details but I remember the whole situation left a sour taste in my mouth.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (14 children)

Considering the lead developer of GrapheneOS bans anyone from their chat for asking how an Android phone with GrapheneOS compares to a non-android phone, such as a PinePhone or Librem 5, in terms of security, because, according to said developer, PhonePhone and Librem5 are "scam products" and even asking questions about them is "spreading misinformation" and "promotion of fraud", I'd be quite, quite vary of the claims GrapheneOS developers make about its security.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Isn't Librem the one so slow to ship products and do refunds thereafter, it's basically a scam? Yes, it is. It's the Purism scam company. I watched a video on it. It was informative and unfortunate.

GrapheneOS is good apparently, even though I'm wary of the idea that a phone that Google sells could ever be secure...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The only parts of this phone not open source are google proprietary drivers for the hardware. I highly doubt those are compromised.

I'm pretty confident my Pixel 6 is not phoning home to the mother ship.

Edit: and I guess whatever grub/bootloader is on here might also be closed source, not sure.

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